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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.
Reducing the qualifications is meant to make it easier to recruit more International Protection Appeals Tribunal members, to process more appeals, faster.
“Amandla,” hollered Lucky Khambule when he reached the stage. “Ngawethu,” shouted the audience in reply.
Yet anti-immigrant protestors often film asylum seekers outside their accommodation, just going about their business.
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.
When Arpita Chakraborty arrived at Amsterdam’s airport without her Spanish-citizen husband, “They’re like, ‘Okay, sorry, Madam, where is your husband?’”
Even when applicants have never had run-ins with the law in Ireland or elsewhere, and have submitted piles of paperwork.
Fast-trackers are rushed through in a bit less than three months, while other people are left in suspense for 18 months.
An Garda Síochána hasn’t responded to queries sent on 4 September asking about any plans to try to protect residents.
After nearly 50 years, Norman Priestman is retiring and so the shop, formally called The Paint Pot, is closing.
But when he went to the International Organisation for Migration, they said they wouldn’t help him get there because his home is too dangerous.
For some locals suffering in houses because of the noise, it’s a genuine concern. For others, is it a cover?