7+ hour, 18+ min ago   (638+ words) A property management company has been ordered to pay €14,750 to a female tenant who sought refuge in a women’s shelter after it was found to have discriminated against her. The woman, Sanaa Qaddi, spent a number of weeks in a…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (442+ words) The director of a firm behind provision of refugee accommodation to the State paid himself more than €3 million last year. JMA Ventures Limited, owned by James McCarville, has been in receipt of close to €30 million from the State for the…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (313+ words) Terms of settlement have been agreed in a dispute between receivers of a firm involved in a Dublin hotel used to accommodate refugees and its management company, the High Court heard. Last month, Interstate Hotel Management Ireland Ltd, managers of…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (417+ words) In the case, a High Court judge has refused the man an application to judicially review (JR) a decision by the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (Ipat) affirming a recommendation that the man be refused refugee status and subsequent decisions by…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (356+ words) A Commercial Court hearing of a dispute about a cancelled international protection applicants accommodation centre in south city Dublin may take place at the beginning of next year, a judge said. Judge Eileen Roberts said there was availability for a…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (620+ words) Nine out of 10 asylum seekers whose requests for international protection were assessed using a fast-track procedure now being rolled out on a permanent basis had their claims rejected by the State. Internal Department of Justice briefings said a trial operation…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (586+ words) The number of people coming to Ireland to seek asylum has halved in the two weeks since the EU migration pact came into operation, Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan has said. O’Callaghan stressed that it is “very early stages” for…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (310+ words) Receivers appointed over Dublin’s former Red Cow Ibis Hotel, used to accommodate refugees, have agreed not to proceed with moves to take over the running of the premises pending a hearing in the High Court. Last week, Interstate Hotel Management…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (512+ words) Unaccompanied young asylum seekers whose age is disputed may face medical examinations “as a last resort” and where other processes prove inconclusive, the Department of Justice has said. Such assessments, which have not been used in Ireland previously, are “unreliable,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (483+ words) The managers of a former Dublin Ibis Hotel, which is used to accommodate refugees, claim that receivers appointed over a separate company involved in the premises are interfering with its management, the High Court heard. Interstate Hotel Management Ireland Ltd…...