Ireland weather updates: New orange warning issued for low temperatures and ice from this evening
Cold snap: Met Éireann records temperature of -7.5 in Mullingar as ESB and Uisce Éireann work to restore electricity and water supplies
A radical departure from Ireland’s approach to drug addiction
In the News podcast: Social affairs correspondent Kitty Holland discusses the opening of Ireland’s first medically supervised injection facility
‘Misuse and abuse’ of State payment by some hosts of Ukrainian refugees, charity warns
Helping Irish Hosts calls for accommodation recognition payment scheme to be extended so Irish households can host refugees in direct provision
What will be the impact of Elon Musk’s political meddling?
In the News podcast: Inside Politics presenter Hugh Linehan on the growing influence of Elon Musk on the world’s political stage
State’s approach to migrant integration is ‘outdated, unrealistic and unfair’, says charity
Government accused of placing too much focus on integration into labour market rather than into society
Case of Afghan boy (15) allegedly forced back out to sea on raft ruled inadmissable by human rights court
Child‘s statements ‘contradictory and inconsistent at times’ while he failed to prove he was in Greece at time of alleged events
Serious concern for ‘few hundred’ rough sleepers amid snow and freezing rain
International protection applicants without accommodation will be housed during cold weather, department says
Golden visas: what we know - and still don’t know - about the scrapped scheme
In the News podcast: Irish Times Current Affairs Editor Arthur Beasley discusses the latest Immigrant Investor Programme revelations
State has failed to plan for a surge of asylum seeker arrivals as new EU legal deadline approaches
Ireland is just one of six European countries with no plan to deal with increase in demand for migrant accommodation
Immigration during 2024: The year in numbers
Daily arrivals have dropped, but the number of asylum applications has increased significantly
How much does the Government spend supporting Irish emigrants in the US?
The Emigrant Support Programme spends the money on ‘long-established’ immigration centres in New York, Boston, Seattle, San Diego and San Francisco
Sally Hayden goes inside Syria’s Sednaya prison
In the News podcast: Irish Times international correspondent Sally Hayden on the excitement, emotion and uncertainty following the fall of Assad
Irish rail disruption hell: ‘There has not been one day without delays on the train’
Readers describe their experiences of disrupted timetables, cancelled trains, packed carriages and poor communication on Ireland’s rail lines
‘Bashar al Assad is the refugee now, that’s the irony. He is the last Syrian refugee’: Syrians in Ireland ponder potential return home
The Assad regime’s collapse has left Syrians in Ireland facing the ‘confusing’ option of returning to their country of origin, something they believed to be impossible before now
Lara Marlowe on meeting Bashar al-Assad: ‘He was comical-looking. They called him ‘the giraffe’
In the News podcast: Writer and journalist Lara Marlowe discusses the five decades of authoritarian rule under Hafez and Bashar al-Assad