The council wasn’t hiring a municipal walker, but she took the job anyway
Once a month since September 2022, artist Lian Bell has done a full circuit of the North and South Circular Roads, observing these 14km through the seasons.
“It’s like they see you as inferior as a human being,” says Arpita Chakraborty. She isn’t alone in reporting a sense of belittlement after a visa appointment there.
“They all have the desire for work, but there’s barrier after barrier after barrier.”
Ten years into it, Slavi Begov says he’s looking for more Balkan folk-dance buffs as pupils.
But a statistics blackout means it’s unclear how many.
Arwa Ahmed, a paediatric registrar at Temple Street Children’s Hospital, says she just wants to go visit her mum, who has heart disease.
“I saw him today at the canteen, at breakfast time.”
When the government designates a country as officially “safe”, it’s harder for someone from there to get asylum in Ireland.
Reducing payments won’t stop people from coming, said researcher Tim S. Müller. “But would make the conditions worse for asylum seekers.”
“We were like, we have a space at the moment in the house.”
A clause banning police from sharing data with immigration officials was removed before the directive was adopted
In a new country, with different norms, while coping with the extreme stresses of life in the asylum process.
Conway, a crane operator, died in a motorcycle crash in 2001, at age 38.