8+ hour, 33+ min ago  (465+ words) A UK-based healthcare assistant has pleaded guilty to smuggling a woman with a Swedish "lookalike" document into Ireland. Muna Mohamed Sharif (47), with an address at Bodmin Grove, Birmingham, England, was arrested at Dublin Airport on April 10th last. She was remanded…...

18+ hour, 9+ min ago  (719+ words) Up to 90 per cent of asylum seekers in the State may have entered via the Border with Northern Ireland in the past three years, figures suggest. Government data shows the Common Travel Area (CTA) is being exploited in both directions…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (480+ words) Tomorrow the European Union's (EU) Pact on Migration and Asylum shifts from being a much-vaunted idea into law across the EU member states. In Ireland, the International Protection Act 2026 transposes several thousand pages of EU law into domestic law. This…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (318+ words) The State may have been left exposed to "significant liabilities" after five cases taken against it by providers of buildings originally earmarked for accommodating asylum seekers. The providers are suing the State after the Government changed its plans and reduced…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (508+ words) The task of deciding whether an asylum seeker claiming to be a child is, in fact, an adult will be removed from Tusla. People presenting as unaccompanied children to make asylum applications will be appointed their own advocate before undergoing…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (599+ words) Almost 300 asylum seekers who claimed they were children were subsequently deemed to be adults over the past four years, the child and family agency has said. The average time these adults were incorrectly presumed to be children, and were possibly…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (693+ words) Concern has been mounting for some time about the safety and welfare of child asylum seekers in Tusla's care. The worries, voiced by health watchdog Hiqa, legal professionals, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and Tusla itself, centre on these vulnerable…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (646+ words) More than a thousand people in Ipas centres have been told to leave by early July as they are "no longer entitled" to live there, prompting fears of a surge in demand for homelessness accommodation. The International Protection Accommodation Service…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (701+ words) The High Court has declared as unconstitutional legislation requiring various watchdogs and regulatory bodies to notify the Garda National Vetting Bureau of individuals under investigation whom they believe could pose a danger to children or vulnerable people. In a judgment…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (512+ words) The State is to terminate more than 500 contracts with hotels and other accommodation housing more than 16, 000 Ukrainian refugees. The move, approved by the Cabinet committee on migration on Monday, gives effect to previously flagged moves as part of an effort…...