As the government blocks funding for major social-housing projects, FF and FG councillors point fingers at ministers
As many as 1,325 social homes in Dublin city are at an advanced stage, with planning granted – but now with no clear funding.
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Men living at Kilbride Army Camp while they seek asylum find the little privacy they have is being eroded
They now have to show their papers to enter – despite a judge ruling that a similar measure was overly intrusive a decade ago.
An effort to keep open a small shop in an asylum shelter, which makes residents’ lives that bit easier
The centre’s managers want, instead, to give residents vouchers for outside shops – but the nearest one’s a 30-minute walk.
Who’s behind a website and social media accounts ratcheting up support for anti-immigration candidates standing in Ireland?
Set up in response to events in “the fall of 2022”, they’ve been seeking “digital canvassers” to back candidates listed on the website.
As more people face a shorter window to appeal asylum claims, hasty deportation orders cause undue stress
The number of deportation orders has shot up since 2022. But that doesn’t mean they’re all sound and will stand up to scrutiny.
Those with disabilities face fewer, but still some, hurdles to voting this election
Padhraic Dormer votes in every election. “If you don’t vote, you can’t give out,” he said on Friday,
A company wants to hire an electrician, but the state is trying to deport him
Joseph Sesay says he can’t go back to Sierra Leone to apply for a work permit from there. It doesn’t feel safe, he says.
A change to the law means people deciding asylum appeals no longer have to be practising lawyers
Reducing the qualifications is meant to make it easier to recruit more International Protection Appeals Tribunal members, to process more appeals, faster.
A gathering celebrates MASI’s 10 years of advocacy for asylum seekers, by asylum seekers
“Amandla,” hollered Lucky Khambule when he reached the stage. “Ngawethu,” shouted the audience in reply.
Just a handful have been prosecuted in recent years for illegally revealing identities of people seeking asylum
Yet anti-immigrant protestors often film asylum seekers outside their accommodation, just going about their business.
Burdened by poverty, a father struggles to pay for journeys from Cork to Dublin to sign immigration paperwork
He faces arrest if he doesn’t turn up to sign his papers, to prove he hasn’t gone off grid while he appeals a deportation order. But he also can’t work to pay for a train ticket.
Non-EU partners of EU citizens can legally travel without visas, even on their own, but border guards and airline staff don’t always let them
When Arpita Chakraborty arrived at Amsterdam’s airport without her Spanish-citizen husband, “They’re like, ‘Okay, sorry, Madam, where is your husband?’”
Background checks for some citizenship-seekers seem to take years
Even when applicants have never had run-ins with the law in Ireland or elsewhere, and have submitted piles of paperwork.