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# Asylum Seekers

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Private company paid €1.6 million in 4 months to find emergency accommodation for asylum seekers
13 Feb 2019
35.8k
53
Roosky hotel fire may have been premeditated and prepared for days beforehand gardaí believe
12 Feb 2019
14.4k
62
'They were not deterred': Three people were in building when fires started at Roosky hotel
12 Feb 2019
15.8k
93
'This should be treated as a hate crime': Concern expressed after fire at hotel earmarked as Direct Provision centre
Updated 11 Jan 2019
42.9k
113
Fire breaks out at hotel to be used as Direct Provision centre on Leitrim-Roscommon border
10 Jan 2019
41.3k
126
'It brought out that voice and helped connect me to others': This Cork radio station is helping asylum seekers tell their stories
5 Jan 2019
12.3k
3
Dutch church holds month-long 'marathon mass' to protect refugee family from deportation
4 Dec 2018
17.6k
35
Moville community galvanised to help following arson attack at hotel being prepared for asylum seekers
26 Nov 2018
20.7k
104
Injunction sought preventing hotel being used as accommodation for asylum seekers
16 Nov 2018
22.9k
'A stain on our society': What the presidential candidates think about Direct Provision
21 Oct 2018
21.0k
48
Asylum seekers will be allowed to work in Ireland under new rules
27 Jun 2018
50.6k
148
Opinion: The immigration crisis may spell the end of the European dream
Antonio Tajani
27 Jun 2018
41.1k
104
Trump calls for 'these people' to be deported 'without courts or judges'
25 Jun 2018
28.8k
124
Opinion: 'Direct provision has been a disaster'
Ronan Herlihy
18 Jun 2018
30.9k
58
Israel will send refugees to Western countries as deportation plan scrapped
2 Apr 2018
19.9k
57
The tourism trade wants to hire asylum seekers to plug skills gaps
1 Apr 2018
18.6k
102
The tourism trade wants to hire asylum seekers to plug skills gaps
28 Mar 2018
1.5k
5
'Out of reach': A month after landmark court ruling, no asylum seeker has applied for work permit here
22 Mar 2018
19.3k
37
'Since moving to Ireland I have been born again, I want to thank the country for that'
Nasir Elsafi
19 Mar 2018
92.7k
95
'People aren't fleeing for no reason, they are forced to leave - forced by killing'
Anonymous Man Graphic
18 Mar 2018
27.4k
57
Single refugees in Ballaghaderreen are relying on housing offers from the Irish public
14 Mar 2018
24.3k
53
Asylum seekers in Ireland can finally work, but it doesn't look like they're allowed drive to that work
10 Mar 2018
42.6k
118
Lisdoonvarna locals say they'll welcome 30 asylum seekers next week ... but no more than that
6 Mar 2018
26.3k
146
Supreme Court formally declares end to ban preventing asylum seekers from working
9 Feb 2018
22.7k
166
'Why not allow asylum seekers work where they want and pay taxes like everyone else?'
Sorcha Grisewood
9 Feb 2018
24.0k
130
Seven asylum seekers and refugees will receive scholarships to study at UCC
19 Jan 2018
23.1k
61
Asylum seekers may only be allowed to work in certain jobs
21 Nov 2017
24.1k
130
Those in Direct Provision will be allowed to work, Minister confirms
4 Oct 2017
13.8k
112
'An inhumane action': Eviction orders issued to asylum seekers in direct provision
20 Sep 2017
21.4k
89
'Ireland is well placed to respond to the needs of migrants and refugees'
Bishop Kevin Doran
10 Sep 2017
10.9k
150
Gardaí use golf buggy to track two Afghani asylum seekers who escaped onto Irish course
4 Aug 2017
32.6k
67
Government defends lack of information on people who died in direct provision
28 Jul 2017
6.4k
14
The food is 'horrible' and the men are 'creepy' - Children in direct provision speak out
19 Jul 2017
68.3k
218
Scholarships to be given to people in Direct Provision as UL becomes a University of Sanctuary
19 Jun 2017
22.7k
96
EU takes legal action against Hungary, Poland, and Czechs for refusing to take refugees
13 Jun 2017
20.3k
171
Syrian refugees coming to Roscommon will get less than €20-a-week as they await their status
13 Mar 2017
27.7k
250
Rise in deportations 'worrying and stressful' as department denies official crackdown policy
26 Feb 2017
25.4k
84
Explainer: Why Australia is worried that Trump won't honour an agreement to accept refugees
2 Feb 2017
17.9k
35
'It's a great thing': Trump heralds Brexit
16 Jan 2017
18.3k
118
Rule change should lead to less time in Direct Provision centres for asylum seekers
3 Jan 2017
12.1k
26
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