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Finding A Voice
A free course [details at link below] for refugees migrants and asylum seekers (and their supporters) in finding a voice, articulating a case and dealing with the media. Dublin City of Sanctuary
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Soulless Asylum
Moria detention centre on Lesbos island this morning You may recall yesterday’s deportation of 202 migrants from Lesbos and Chios islands in Greece to Turkey, with the assistance of 180 Frontex...
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‘They Don’t Care’
Lissywollen Direct Provision centre for asylum seekers, Athlone, Co. Westmeath Political expenses and FOI sleuth Ken Foxe obtained copies of letters of complaints made by asylum seekers living in...
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Free At 6.30pm?
This evening. At Leinster House. Up to 30 asylum seekers, along with members of the groups Movement of Asylum Seekers Ireland and Anti Racism Network, and others, will make a presentation on the...
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‘Unconstitutional’
Earlier today. In an unanimous decision. The seven-judge Supreme Court ruled that the ban prohibiting asylum seekers from work is unconstitutional. The challenge to the ban was taken by a man from...
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Workable?
This morning. Further to the Supreme Court ruling last May that the ban preventing asylum seekers is unconstitutional… The Irish Times reported that Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan is to bring the...
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In February
This afternoon. Further to the Supreme Court’s unanimous finding in May that the ban preventing asylum seekers in Ireland for working is “in principle” unconstitutional… Mary Carolan, in The Irish...
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‘The Most Restrictive Terms’
This afternoon. Outside Leinster House. Members of Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, Anti-Racism Network Ireland and Refugee and Migrant Solidarity Ireland, and their supporters, are holding a...
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No Provision
Shannon Key West Hotel, Rooskey, Co Roscommon The Department of Justice has confirmed that a plan to provide an accommodation centre for asylum seekers at a disused hotel in Rooskey, Co Leitrim, will...
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Busted
Independent TD Noel Grealish This morning in today’s Irish Times. Solicitor and partner at Abbey Law Wendy Lyon has dissected Independent TD Noel Grealish’s claims about asylum seekers before writing:...
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