Crumlin Boxing Club is run by Philip Sutcliffe Snr, McGregor’s boxing coach, a Dublin city councillor who – like McGregor – has voiced anti-immigrant views.
While spouses and civil partners have the right to stay in Ireland if their relationship with their EU partner falls apart, other long-term partners don’t.
The European Parliament recently voted to demand a ban on the sale of European passports, and to tighten access to residency-via-investment schemes, like Ireland’s.
In two cases in Ireland, people asked for refuge here saying their homes had been ravaged by climate change and so they could not go back. Both were refused.
Osarumen Izevbokun and his wife, who are permanent residents of Ukraine, having lived there for 14 years, are finding it harder than they expected to come here.
Eugenio Antonio says they keep trying to charge him €300 to register, which should be free for him. But they wouldn’t listen to him, so he had to get a lawyer involved.
Medical graduate Obinna Nwako, who was studying psychiatry in Ukraine when the war broke out, is facing challenges trying to come join his family in Dublin.
Even before thousands of Ukrainian refugees began arriving in Ireland, asylum seekers and refugees had said they were struggling to access free English classes.
A spokesperson for the Gardaí said it encourages victims of crimes, including those that “may be perceived to be racially/or hate motivated”, to come forward.
A spokesperson for the Department of Justice said they rely on post because of “security reasons and in some instances to comply with statutory provisions”.
