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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Exclusion from CE schemes yet another barrier to people working while awaiting asylum decisions
“They all have the desire for work, but there’s barrier after barrier after barrier.”
In Santry, a Bulgarian dance teacher preserves disappearing Balkan folk dances
Ten years into it, Slavi Begov says he’s looking for more Balkan folk-dance buffs as pupils.
People seeking asylum who say they are children are being housed alongside adults
But a statistics blackout means it’s unclear how many.
At the Egyptian embassy in Dublin, Sudanese immigrants plead for a chance to visit their loved ones in Egypt
Arwa Ahmed, a paediatric registrar at Temple Street Children’s Hospital, says she just wants to go visit her mum, who has heart disease.
Two months after an alleged assault on an asylum seeker, IPAS has left the accuser and accused to share shelter
“I saw him today at the canteen, at breakfast time.”
When arguing Algeria is a “safe” country, did Department of Justice officials downplay human rights violations?
When the government designates a country as officially “safe”, it’s harder for someone from there to get asylum in Ireland.
No evidence welfare rates affect where people seeking asylum end up, researchers say
Reducing payments won’t stop people from coming, said researcher Tim S. Müller. “But would make the conditions worse for asylum seekers.”
In Churchtown, a couple invite a former asylum seeker into their home
“We were like, we have a space at the moment in the house.”
New EU directive prioritises migration control over fighting violence against women, says campaigner
A clause banning police from sharing data with immigration officials was removed before the directive was adopted
A former asylum seeker teaches newcomers how to navigate parenthood under pressure
In a new country, with different norms, while coping with the extreme stresses of life in the asylum process.
Brushing up: A monument to “Demolition” Dave Conway, who helped clear the way for the Luas’s Red Line
Conway, a crane operator, died in a motorcycle crash in 2001, at age 38.
For parents raising children in direct provision, the fear of the state taking them away is ever-present
Especially for lone parents, who can face having inadequately trained shelter staff call in Tusla if they leave their children alone even briefly.