# Migrants

Last week

21st May 2023 - 3rd June 2023

Fighting in Sudan has displaced more than 1.3 million people, says UN

Violence erupted in April after months of escalating tensions between rival generals Abdel-Fattah Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.

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May 24th 2023, 8:57 PM

Last month

May 2023

# Magowna House

'Horror' after Clare protesters board bus to conduct 'headcount of asylum seekers'

Protests have taken place at Magowna House hotel in Inch, Co Clare, after over 30 assylum seekers were moved into holiday homes there this week.

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May 17th 2023, 7:47 PM

# Inch

Taoiseach says 'no need' for protests at refugee housing, after blockade by Clare locals

The dispute centres around Magowna House in Inch, where around 34 asylum seekers arrived yesterday evening.

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May 16th 2023, 7:50 PM

# accommodation crisis

Taoiseach 'horrified' by burning of refugee tents as ministers to meet gardaí over protests

Migrant groups have expressed grave concern for the safety of asylum seekers sleeping rough.

A makeshift camp for migrants on Dublin's Sandwith Street was torched on Friday night amid demonstrations.

Integration Minister Roderic O'Gorman said people have the right to protest but not to 'intimidate'.

The Green Party TD said 180 beds will become available to be offered to migrants in the coming days.

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May 15th 2023, 6:00 PM

# Title 42

US pandemic-era border laws lapse as Democrats hit out at Republicans over 'political football'

Tens of thousands of people are expected to try to cross into the US in the coming days.

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May 12th 2023, 8:06 AM

This year

2023

# France

Thousands protest against French government's migration plans

The bill would make a minimum level of French a requirement for a multi-year residence permit and allows for mandatory fingerprinting.

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Apr 29th 2023, 6:32 PM

THE MORNING LEAD

Mullingar: Anti-migrant protests see allegations of 'intimidation' against refugees and locals

A report by

Eoghan Dalton

Protests over the use of a barracks in Mullingar have intensified over the past week even as protester numbers have fallen.

Protests against emergency refugee accommodation have led to locals, workers at the site and asylum seekers being followed and recorded.

There were also suggestions that an individual garda should be targeted following his policing of a protest.

Local and national groups supporting migrants have called the actions 'shameful' and 'disgusting'.

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Apr 2nd 2023, 12:05 AM

# Drowning

29 people dead after boats capsize during migrant crossings off Tunisia

The coastguard said it had recovered the bodies of 29 migrants after three boats capsized.

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Mar 26th 2023, 2:00 PM

# United States

Two dead among 15 migrants found "suffocating" in a train in Texas

The US Border Patrol stopped the train after receiving an anonymous tip off.

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Mar 25th 2023, 2:44 PM

# St Patrick

President Higgins links struggles of migrants to our patron saint in St Patrick's Day message

The president stated that ‘a poisonous xenophobia, new and recalled, has taken hold in so many places’.

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Mar 16th 2023, 6:00 AM

# Migrants

UK unveils controversial plans to stop migrants crossing Channel illegally on small boats

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the plan would “take back control” of the borders “once and for all”.

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Mar 7th 2023, 7:38 PM

# Study

Brexit has caused challenges with cross-border travel on island of Ireland for migrants

That’s according to new researched published by the ESRI today.

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Mar 6th 2023, 6:30 AM

Voices

FactCheck newsletter: Despite Covid's lessons about fake news, history is now repeating itself

The anti-migrant playbook is almost identical to how things unfolded in early 2020.

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Mar 5th 2023, 11:30 AM

# channel crossings

Irishman among four charged with smuggling migrants to the UK from Belgium

The migrants were smuggled across the channel via boats.

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Mar 1st 2023, 5:05 PM

# Misinformation

Social media companies aren't doing enough to remove misinformation about migrants, Harris says

There have been numerous allegations about migrants and refugees circulating on social media in recent weeks.

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Feb 24th 2023, 12:04 PM

# debunked

Debunked: No, a Dublin community centre has not been closed because it is housing 150 Somalians

The centre has been the subject of local protests.

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Feb 23rd 2023, 5:29 PM

# garda attacks

Taoiseach: 'National conversation needed on what's driving anger and violence in society'

Varadkar says we need to asked ourselves what has changed in our society in the last couple of years.

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Feb 21st 2023, 3:20 PM

# Healthcare crisis

'Non-EU nurses are paying to come here': Ireland's place in global scramble for healthcare staff

The co-founder of Migrant Nurses Ireland said the organisation is aware of instances of non-EU nurses paying to come to Ireland for work.

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Feb 19th 2023, 12:05 AM

# refugee crisis

Seven people detained after 18 found dead in abandoned truck in Bulgaria

Some survivors are being treated for carbon monoxide poisoning after having inhaled exhaust pipe gases.

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Feb 18th 2023, 12:05 PM

# factcheck

Debunked: Deceptive leaflet distributed in Dublin telling ‘girls to stay indoors’ is a hoax

The hoax leaflet was supposedly sent by the government, though misspelled the Irish translation.

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Feb 14th 2023, 6:49 PM

# Mediterranean

Woman and three children drown in migrant shipwreck off Greece

Eye witnesses reported seeing an inflatable boat carrying around 40 migrants, including children and people with reduced mobility aboard.

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Feb 5th 2023, 6:55 PM

# factcheck

Debunked: No, ‘100,000 unvetted foreign nationals’ did not receive free accommodation in a year

Figures for people applying for asylum in Ireland are publicly available… and not nearly that high.

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Feb 2nd 2023, 5:28 PM

# sean binder

'It seems dramatic; most of the time I did f**k all': Kerryman on migrant smuggling trial in Greece

Sean Binder faces trial in Greece this week.

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Jan 8th 2023, 2:33 PM

Last year

2022

# UK

19-year-old charged in connection with migrant boat deaths in the English Channel

Four people were pronounced dead and 39 people were rescued following the incident on Wednesday.

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Dec 18th 2022, 2:15 PM

# RIP

Two-month-old baby dies in migrant shipwreck off Lesbos

The baby boy was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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Dec 17th 2022, 7:27 PM

# Coast Guard

Rescue under way as hundreds of migrants stranded on boat drifting off Crete

The coast guard said passengers on the boat had made a distress call to an emergency number during the night.

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Nov 22nd 2022, 9:07 AM

# Migrants

Migrants at Manston centre in Kent to be vaccinated against diphtheria following spike in cases

The UK Health Security Agency said it is moving with the Home Office to vaccinate migrants at the Kent site against the disease.

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Nov 12th 2022, 11:14 AM

# Mediterranean

Charity asks France, Spain, Greece for help with rescued migrants

There are many unaccompanied minors and children on board, the youngest of whom is three

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Nov 3rd 2022, 10:52 PM

# Shipwreck

At least 73 people dead as boat sinks off Syria's coast after leaving Lebanon

This is the deadliest such shipwreck from Lebanon in recent years.

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Sep 23rd 2022, 3:24 PM

# martha's vineyard

Florida governor flies migrants to wealthy Martha's Vineyard

President Joe Biden slammed the move, saying Republicans are ‘playing politics with human beings’.

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Sep 16th 2022, 7:47 AM

# Italy

More than a thousand migrants arrive in Italy within hours, hundreds more rescued off the coast

Between 1 January and 22 July, 34,000 people arrived in Italy by sea.

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Jul 24th 2022, 6:48 PM

# English Channel

British and French police arrest 15 people in connection to English Channel migrant deaths

Twenty-seven people died when the boat they were in sank off the coast of Calais in November.

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Jul 2nd 2022, 7:31 PM

# SAN ANTONIO

Migrants recount their journeys to US following Texas truck deaths

53 migrants died this week after the trailer they were in was abandoned in Texas.

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Jul 1st 2022, 8:27 AM

# Undocumented

Undocumented migrants need government schemes to gain access to services, says ESRI

‘In cases where a migrant’s residence becomes undocumented, care should be taken to ensure they are not afraid to access basic services.’

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May 24th 2022, 7:30 AM

# Migrants

Sicily judge to weigh trial of migrant rescue NGOs

Twenty-one suspects, including crew members of Doctors Without Borders, are accused of “aiding and abetting unauthorised entry into Italy”.

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May 21st 2022, 12:27 PM

# Refugees

Charities say Rwanda plan not deterring ‘desperate’ migrants crossing Channel to UK

Small boat journeys from France to the UK began again on Sunday after a break of more than a week.

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May 2nd 2022, 5:25 PM

# Shipwreck

Bodies of 17 migrants found off Tunisia coast

Tunisia is a key departure point for migrants seeking to reach European shores.

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Mar 19th 2022, 5:58 PM

# tunisia

Four migrants die of 'cold and hunger' in Tunisia

Nearly 2,000 migrants went missing or drowned last year in the Mediterranean.

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Mar 3rd 2022, 2:34 PM

All time

# Migration

Bodies of 28 migrants found on Libyan coast

Libya has become a key departure point for people from Africa and Asia attempting to migrate to Europe.

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Dec 26th 2021, 6:00 PM

# Greece

At least 30 dead in migrant boat sinkings along the coast of Greece

The incidents have happened near the island of Paros.

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Dec 25th 2021, 10:07 AM