What’s the best way to tell area residents about plans for a new asylum shelter nearby?
The government should tell communities directly about plans for new asylum shelters, some activists and politicians say.
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Burdened by poverty, a father struggles to pay for journeys from Cork to Dublin to sign immigration paperwork
He faces arrest if he doesn’t turn up to sign his papers, to prove he hasn’t gone off grid while he appeals a deportation order. But he also can’t work to pay for a train ticket.
Background checks for some citizenship-seekers seem to take years
Even when applicants have never had run-ins with the law in Ireland or elsewhere, and have submitted piles of paperwork.
Is it fair to have a fast-track and a slow-track for processing asylum claims?
Fast-trackers are rushed through in a bit less than three months, while other people are left in suspense for 18 months.
At Crooksling’s asylum shelter, harassment on the ground and drones in the sky
An Garda Síochána hasn’t responded to queries sent on 4 September asking about any plans to try to protect residents.
Local residents raise concerns about health impacts on asylum seekers of living under a busy airport flight path in tents at Thornton Hall
For some locals suffering in houses because of the noise, it’s a genuine concern. For others, is it a cover?
Fires in Crown Paints warehouses haven’t triggered the release of asbestos, fire brigade says
Five of the seven buildings have asbestos roofs, says an estate agent’s brochure.
Tusla has downgraded supports for migrant children who arrive alone, says social care worker
“They have created a new category of young people in care”, affecting their entitlement to a social worker and to support once they turn 18 years old, they said.
Cover image for Dublin Inquirer print edition #100
“This month’s cover is inspired by Dublin’s ‘Fortress Grand Canal’, perhaps the most striking example of hostile architecture, of designing against humanity, in the city in recent years.”
In the Docklands, there’s a burnt-out corner where asylum seekers once slept
It is unclear whether the ashes are the aftermath of an arson attack, or an unrelated fire now being used online to rally and intimidate.
Exclusion from CE schemes yet another barrier to people working while awaiting asylum decisions
“They all have the desire for work, but there’s barrier after barrier after barrier.”
People seeking asylum who say they are children are being housed alongside adults
But a statistics blackout means it’s unclear how many.
At the Egyptian embassy in Dublin, Sudanese immigrants plead for a chance to visit their loved ones in Egypt
Arwa Ahmed, a paediatric registrar at Temple Street Children’s Hospital, says she just wants to go visit her mum, who has heart disease.