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As an anti-immigrant encampment dwindles on Basin View, its organisers try to rally
One man who’s been involved has been trying to organise a social event on a nearby council football pitch, something the council says it’s “monitoring”.
Rising above a provocative headline, a woman asks the press to frame immigration stories with care
“I don’t want my story or the way my headline was written and the backlash it got to be a prime example for immigrants to not tell their stories,” says Sumyrah Khan.
Most asylum shelters are not subject to HIQA inspections
Instead, they are inspected by IPAS staff or an inspections company – but is that working?
For some immigrant security guards, just doing their jobs brings harassment
After the abuse he’s faced, Marin Glamuzina says he’s not doing well. Kayur Prajapati says he faces vitriol regularly.
In a boxing club with ties to Conor McGregor, some non-white and immigrant athletes seek to connect and belong
Crumlin Boxing Club is run by Philip Sutcliffe Snr, McGregor’s boxing coach, a Dublin city councillor who – like McGregor – has voiced anti-immigrant views.
Some immigrant kids disappear from care to join family abroad, Tusla says – is there a safer way?
There’s a system for Tusla to help reunite kids with family in other EU member states, but not in the UK.
For some workers, winning compensation at the Workplace Relations Commission is just the start of another legal journey
It’s not uncommon for companies to fail to pay – and it can be difficult to force the issue.
To offer legal support in a much faster asylum system next year, Legal Aid Board fights for more funding, documents show
It’s a year until the EU’s Migration and Asylum Pact comes into force, and with it, big changes with implications for legal support.
Surya: A beginner’s guide to the trope of the “odorous” Indian
An essay for the two women on the Dublin Bus.
To get an Irish passport for a baby girl born here, they thought they had done everything right
But the passport office wouldn’t budge.
Fifty years after the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Dubliners peer back into the past – as they understand it
For some, life is an inherited ache to leave Vietnam and half-remembered stories and unprocessed feelings embodied in what their grandparents said, or didn’t say, about the past.
With long and indefinite waits for an answer, some people seeking Irish citizenship feel pushed to lawyer up
Between 2023 and late March 2025, the Department of Justice spent over €4.6 million on court cases brought by citizenship seekers, official figures say.