Green Party to promise new migration agency to overhaul approach to asylum seekers
Party’s election manifesto to propose new body called the Asylum and Integration Agency which would bring together functions carried out by existing agencies
International Protection Office
Dublin authorities make 400 extra beds available for homeless this winter
More than 10,000 emergency beds were already occupied by homeless people in Dublin last month
Number of deportation orders up by 140% over past year, says report
Helen McEntee to update Government on impact of accelerated processing measures for international protection applicants
Tribunal must reconsider asylum claim made by man convicted of manslaughter, court rules
Judge found a fatal error was made in failing to disclose questionnaire document to man’s legal team
Number of Nigerian asylum seekers falls dramatically under fast-track system
Past four months has seen a significant increase in the number of Jordanians seeking international protection in Ireland
State has ‘done nothing’ about High Court judgment finding breach of asylum seekers’ rights, judge hears
Human rights body asks court to reconsider making order forcing State to vindicate the asylum seekers’ rights
Asylum seekers cleared from Grand Canal by gardaí within minutes of arriving
Gardaí were alerted by Waterways Ireland staff patrolling area
Budget 2025: Parents of newborns to receive triple child benefit payment
Maternity and paternity benefit to increase by €15 a week, welfare payments to increase by €12 while student grants to go up by 15%
South African family ‘feel like we are on death row waiting for deportation’ from Ireland
Neels Heystek and his family feel they were denied asylum ‘due to the political climate’ in Ireland
Checking passports with immigration control at Dublin Airport
Department of Justice immigration officials are attempting to prevent asylum seekers dumping travel documents after disembarking flights
‘You feel you’re doing the State’s work’: volunteers step in to help asylum seekers
Community groups have been set up to volunteer services in the face of official inaction and an increasingly hostile atmosphere
More than 23,000 asylum applications now pending in International Protection Office
Median time to first interview for all applications had been slowly decreasing in 2024 but rose in July to 68 weeks for standard cases, up from 55.5 weeks in June and 63 weeks in May
Irish plan for implementing EU migration pact, including new accommodation centres, expected by November
Accelerated processing times and designated accommodation centres form part of changes in controversial EU deal
Number of homeless asylum seekers passes 2,000 for first time, new figures show
Data come as agencies warns of ‘escalation’ in eviction letters being issued to people in direct provision accommodation
Sinn Féin ‘Eurocritical, not Eurosceptic’, says Mary Lou McDonald
Party’s manifesto says Sinn Féin opposes EU asylum and migration pact because ‘Ireland should retain sovereignty over its own borders and migration policy’
Analysis: What effect will the Government’s scattergun approach to managing migrants have?
A chaotic system involving the Department of Justice, the Department of Integration and the HSE is struggling to cope with increased demand
More than 21,000 people awaiting first decision on international protection application
Figures high despite accelerated processing system from so-called safe countries introduced almost two years ago
Scotland to Dublin, via Belfast: This is not a visible migrant route. There are no identity checks
Harry McGee travels by bus and ferry from Glasgow to Dublin. Asylum seekers are not conspicuous on the journey
Gardaí investigate alleged attack on homeless asylum seekers at Grand Canal
Men living by canal say they fear for their safety following incident where tents were kicked and had eggs thrown at them
More than 30 tents pitched along Grand Canal with extra barriers erected on popular walkway
Government must co-ordinate with pre-existing homeless teams to create register of men sleeping rough, says volunteer
Grand Canal asylum seeker camp ‘dismantled’ with over 160 people taken to ‘robust’ tented accommodation
International protection applicants warned they could be arrested if they return to site, where barriers have been erected after early morning clearance operation
Asylum seekers in tents in the Grand Canal area to be moved
Significant concern in Government over ‘record levels’ of new arrivals as State struggles to find extra space
Mary Lou McDonald nonplussed as Taoiseach questions Sinn Féin’s porous stance on open borders
Taoiseach puzzled by Sinn Féin election literature that claims the party is opposed to open borders
Scammed overseas student sent from UK to ‘job’ at International Protection Office, Dáil hears
Man had legitimate visa for UK but agency charged him £1,500 and took his passport after falsely offering full employment permission in Ireland
Asylum seekers transferred out of Citywest and Crooksling ahead of expected Grand Canal clearance
Men received transfer letters but no indication of where they will be sent on Wednesday and Thursday
Asylum seekers sleeping in tents by Grand Canal say they have nowhere else to go
Close to 70 tents pitched in area over the weekend after migrants were issued with letters saying there were no supports available
Asylum seekers applying at IPO arrived via ports and airports in State, not Northern Ireland, they say
Afghans arriving from France came in lorry containers after long journeys over land and sea fleeing the Taliban
Seven days that shook the Government on immigration
Tensions between Dublin and London over immigration are a reminder that politics between Britain and Ireland is more terse and fragile now
Homeless asylum seekers told to ‘disperse and leave’ Mount Street as accommodation runs out
Some of the men were bussed out of the city centre on Wednesday to accommodation but were told none was available on their arrival
‘No further offers of accommodation can be made’: Almost 100 asylum seekers in Dublin handed letters
Dozens of asylum seekers bussed back to Mount Street have been told that there is no more accommodation
Some refugees left without accommodation on Mount Street while a number set to return to Dublin city centre
Asylum seekers were moved from tents beside International Protection Office complex to State accommodation in Crooksling and Citywest during major operation on Wednesday
Ireland plans to return asylum seekers to UK ‘within weeks’ under legal change
Taoiseach says Ireland has ‘legitimate expectation’ that British counterparts will uphold agreement despite Sunak’s remarks
Asylum seeker ‘shantytown’ in Dublin will be cleared of tents and refugees housed, Taoiseach tells Dáil
South inner city residents group says it will consider court action on health, safety and privacy grounds unless refugee tents are cleared from areas around International Protection Office on Mount Street
Does the data back up McEntee’s claim that 80% of asylum applicants arrive from North?
Analysis: Ratio of applicants presenting at International Protection Office in Dublin compared with those presenting at ports has risen to 10:1
Taoiseach convenes private meeting about Mount Street ‘tented village’
Meeting involving Ministers, gardaí and Dublin City Council agreed on new search for State land to house estimated 200 asylum seekers living in tents in city centre
Palestinians sleeping rough in Dublin face intimidation as 1,758 asylum seekers now homeless
An estimated 200 men now sleeping outside International Protection Office
Migration system may be tightened over spike in international protection applicants
More than 6,000 sought asylum in Ireland so far in 2024, a rise of almost 80% on last year’s figure
Anti-immigration rally and counter-protest at International Protection Office pass off peacefully
Chants of ‘Send them home’ responded to with chants of ‘Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here’ from across the road
Number of homeless asylum seekers increases to 1,780, up 80 from last week*
Volunteers providing food and clothing to international protection applicants sleeping rough in Dublin have reached ‘breaking point’
Number of homeless asylum seekers in State rises to 1,620
Average of 59 people seeking asylum arrived each day during last week of March, almost one third of them children
Residents living near makeshift camps for asylum seekers in Dublin say homes ‘encircled’ by tents
Number of homeless male asylum seekers has increased to almost 1,400, according to figures published in the past fortnight
‘You’re famous, what are you doing here?’: The asylum seeker who has gone from Somali TV to a bunk bed in Citywest
Salman Jamal was a prominent news reporter in Somalia when he was nearly killed in a bomb attack. Now he shares a room in a Dublin centre
Mother slept with child (3) in McDonald’s after finding International Protection Office closed for Easter
A number of homeless families presented at the office in Dublin on Friday after it had closed for the Easter weekend
Number of homeless male asylum seekers rises to 1,399
Number has increased by more than 70 since Tuesday
The Irish Times view on the Mount Street tents: humanitarian emergency with potentially dire consequences
Not for the first time, the Government’s response has been short-sighted, ad hoc and insufficient to the scale of the problem
‘It’s shambolic’: Protesters call for better treatment of asylum seekers
‘Proper accommodation alternatives’ urged for those sleeping in tents such as the men recently moved from city centre to Crooksling
Transport will be arranged for relocated asylum seekers to Dublin city centre, department pledges
Some 37 tents pitched back around International Protection Office on Dublin’s Lower Mount Street, the location cleared of homeless asylum seekers over the weekend
‘It was a 2½-hour walk’: Asylum seekers drift back to central Dublin from ‘miserable’ camp
Men, including Palestinians, were left with one toilet between 100 on arrival in ‘bitterly cold’ Crooksling
Asylum seekers told to pitch tents ‘anywhere on the mountain’ in Crooksling return to Dublin city centre
Men were told to pack belongings before 8am on Saturday morning, with cleaners on site by 10.30am
Managed emergency centre needed for asylum seekers as conditions worsen, doctor says
International Protection applicants facing ‘unmanaged, uncontrolled and inhumane’ situation on arrival
‘People look at us like animals’: Asylum seekers in makeshift Dublin camp suffer skin and respiratory illnesses
Volunteers providing food and tents say men are experiencing skin and respiratory conditions, gastrointestinal illnesses
Protesters stage sit-in at Department of Integration, saying homeless asylum seekers ‘left to rot’
Many now in tents surrounding the offices, with many needing medical attention, campaigners say
‘We did not expect to be here again’: Dublin’s rough sleeping asylum seekers returned to streets
After being provided with emergency beds, the men were sent back to their tents
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