Impending refugee crisis.
“The role of this Agency is to police the borders of the States.”
“A pain in the arse.”
A Ukrainian reception centre has been set up at the old terminal building in Dublin Airport
False hope
The decision by the body representing Irish barristers to present a human rights award to the Movement for Asylum Seekers in Ireland has led to some comment. This is mostly due to the fact that the spokesperson for MASI, Bulelani Mfaco, who accepted the award, has had his initial claims for asylum here refused as […]
In May 2018 his status had been revoked after he had come to the attention of the authorities with regard to his public support for Islamic State.
Angela Merkel is once bitten, twice shy.
The Danish government is planning to return hundreds of Syrian refugees back to their country of origin after Damascus and the surrounding area were deemed safe, despite objections from the EU. In June of last year, the Danish Refugee Board deemed that the city of Damascus was safe in five separate asylum claims. “Conditions in […]
There has been an overwhelming increase in County Waterford’s migrant population over the last two and a half decades, the local council has heard. According to Ivan Grimes, Director of Services for Waterford County Council, the proportion of migrants living in Waterford has increased from 1 in 20 in 1995, to 1 in 7 today […]