Tag: Refugees
We’re Full: Irish Government Asks Refugees to Stop Coming
Yesterday’s low-level rioting at the Citywest asylum facility has put into focus the reality of the state’s overstretched international protection services. Less than a year into the Ukrainian conflict, the Department of Children and Integration tasked with managing the failing...
Ireland Ends Interview Process for Refugees
Asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Somalia & Eritrea are being granted refugee status in Ireland without requiring any interview process. Can you guess the country of origin for the largest group seeking asylum in Ireland currently? As part of the International...
2022 Irish Asylum Spike Just the Start
News of a spike in international protection claims signifies the pebbles before an avalanche of asylum applicants to the Irish state. Recorded by the International Protection Office, the Republic experienced more than an effective doubling in asylum claims from the...
Ireland’s Demographic Peril: A Report from Hungary’s Demographics and the Family Conference
Until recently, known throughout the world for their faith, fecundity and large families, the Irish people now have a falling birth rate which stands below simple replacement level. Consciously deciding to have a child is not just an expression of...
What’s the Plan for Afghan Refugees in Ireland?
The wheels had barely begun lifting off the tarmac at Kabul airport when the nation’s robust open borders lobby began calling for the acceptance of refugees to the Irish Republic. With commitment to cater for 150 additional humanitarian visas as...
Ireland Should Prepare Against Afghan Asylum Surge
The slow-motion disintegration of the American sponsored Kabul regime will invariably impact upon the country’s threadbare asylum system in the years ahead. While the battlefields and refugee camps of Helmand and Greece may be the furthest places imaginable from the...
Where Next for Refugee Resettlement Post-Covid?
On the 15th of November of last year an Aer Lingus Airbus A330-300 touched down on the tarmac of Dublin airport with 160 Syrian nationals. Largely unannounced the refugees were shepherded off the plane by officials wearing UN lanyards and...
Why James Connolly Objected to Ireland Accepting Refugees in 1914
The following is an extract of a debate as reported by Arthur Griffith in his nationalist periodical ‘Éire’ from November 19th, 1914 chronicling a discussion at the Dublin Trade’s Council about the issue of Belgian refugees arriving into Ireland following...
Fake Controversy and the High Court’s Citizenship Ruling
On the 18th of July a calamity happened, or so the immigration lawyers would have you believe. Mr Justice Max Barrett, in a landmark High Court ruling, held that the Minister for Justice could not offer exemptions to a clause...