Tag: asylum
Migration Pact: Dáil Expected to Sign Ireland Down to EU Asylum Budget
Three motions with one unmistakable policy direction dominate Wednesday’s Dáil schedule, as the coalition moves to opt Ireland into a trio of EU multi-annual funding programmes underpinning the Union’s migration, security and justice agenda. The first motion locks Ireland into...
Gerard Howlin’s Boomer Moment
The blood had scarcely scabbed over on Capel Street’s recent Islamist attack when the media launched into an engineered scare regarding a supposed spike in anti-Indian hate crimes. With the Garda Press Office and Coimisiún na Meán both fumbling the...
Court of Appeal Slams IHREC’s Asylum Accommodation Powergrab—Now Time to Trim Its Budget
The Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that the temporary lack of accommodation for single male asylum seekers did not breach constitutional or human rights, overturning a prior High Court decision to that effect in a small but important blow to...
Ireland’s Open Border Deep State: How the IHREC Is Stacking the Deck Against Asylum Reform
Approved by the Cabinet late April before being submitted to the Oireachtas Home Affairs Committee covering migration, the International Protection Bill (2025) has been marketed by Minister Jim O’Callaghan as a once in a generation opportunity to reform the Republic’s...
Borderline Treason: Why Nationalists Should Push for an Irish Sea Border on Migration
The following was published on the 'An Barr Buadh' Substack and is syndicated with the permission of the author. The proposal—floated at the protest by Michelle Keane, and likely influenced by her association with Loyalist Mark Sinclair—for a hard border...
Carrickmacross and Letterkenny: Ulster Takes a Stand Against Mass Immigration
In the wake of the highly successful Dublin protest on the 26th April, two more protests took place in Ulster, in Carrickmacross, Monaghan and Letterkenny, Donegal. The momentum of the Nationalist protest movement is holding steady, and another more protests...
Dogwhistle or Reform: Inside O’Callaghan’s New Asylum Bill
A Fianna Fáil-led attempt to transpose the EU Migration Pact into law is perhaps the first instance in which the protests of the past two years have had a direct impact on legislation, for better or worse. Minister Jim O’Callaghan...
An Irish Boriswave? James Lawless Floats Visa Bonanza in India
Around the time Taoiseach Martin was clenching his teeth in the Oval Office last month, his party comrade and Minister for Further and Higher Education James Lawless touched down in New Delhi for what could be argued to be an...
Analysis in Decay: Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc
Clare-based historian Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has published a new book titled Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland (2025). This is a hot-button topic and certainly one of interest to readers of the...
Athlone Standoff Shows Irish Asylum Saga Reigniting Post-Election
Fresh life is being breathed into the Republic’s asylum drama as Athlone locals faced off against authorities against plans to impose a 1,000-man refugee centre in the northern suburb of Lissywollen. Already subject to a well-attended public meeting, an intense...