Tag: IHREC
House the Irish? NGOs Prepare Human Rights Blockade to Irish First Housing Policy
The government’s Housing and Residential Tenancies Bill, presented to the Oireachtas this month, would if implemented introduce very (very) basic residence requirements for access to social housing waiting lists. Applicants would be required to demonstrate both a legal right to...
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...
Who is Paying Legal Fees of a Convicted Jihadist in Ireland?
In February, this publication reported on the legal precedent set at the Supreme Court whereby the Algerian-born jihadist Ali Charaf Damache managed to successfully challenge the manner by which the Irish State revokes citizenship, thus blowing a considerable hole in...