# asylum - Sunday 13 January, 2019
Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun had accused her family of physical and psychological abuse.
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# asylum - Saturday 24 November, 2018
There have been calls for the Pakistani woman to be offered asylum, including in Ireland.
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# asylum - Tuesday 20 November, 2018
The US President issued a proclamation earlier this month as a matter of “national security”.
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# asylum - Saturday 17 November, 2018
The justice minister and Tánaiste said Ireland would like to help.
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# asylum - Monday 18 June, 2018
For both, it was an unusual entry into a fierce political debate.
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# asylum - Wednesday 6 June, 2018
A report found the housing crisis is ‘contributing to bottlenecks’ in the asylum system.
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# asylum - Tuesday 15 May, 2018
More than a dozen athletes from four African nations have been missing since the games on the Gold Coast last month.
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# asylum - Wednesday 25 April, 2018
Some people are waiting over two years for a decision on their asylum application.
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# asylum - Thursday 22 March, 2018
Critics say the barriers that remain in place act as a deterrent for asylum seekers to get an employment permit.
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# asylum - Wednesday 21 February, 2018
A landmark Supreme Court appeal hearing is under way which is expected to have crucial ramifications for the pending referendum on the Eighth Amendment.
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# asylum - Wednesday 19 July, 2017
It’s part of a report commissioned by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.
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# asylum - Monday 3 July, 2017
The rise in spend by the RIA came against the background of the numbers accommodated by the agency last year decreasing from 4,696 to 4,425 at year end.
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# asylum - Sunday 14 May, 2017
The photographer said he wants to show people inside mysterious buildings they pass all the time.
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# asylum - Monday 12 December, 2016
Zappone said she wants Ireland to take as many unaccompanied minors from the camps as we can.
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# asylum - Monday 14 November, 2016
The Iranian man has been served with a deportation order.
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# asylum - Thursday 29 September, 2016
Rasheed’s* mother is unable to renew her passport and as a result a visa application from her will not be considered.
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# asylum - Thursday 4 August, 2016
Already this year more than 2,000 people have been refused leave to land in Ireland.
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# asylum - Wednesday 2 March, 2016
The approval rate for entry visa applications was 91%.
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# asylum - Sunday 28 February, 2016
They were discovered at the back of a truck that had travelled to Ireland from France.
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# asylum - Tuesday 26 January, 2016
Swedish news agency TT said he was 15 years old.
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# asylum - Wednesday 23 December, 2015
Michael D Higgins could now refer the International Protection Bill to the Supreme Court.
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# asylum - Tuesday 24 November, 2015
The Scandinavian country received 80,000 asylum applications in the past two months.
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# asylum - Thursday 29 October, 2015
Irish MEPs voted 6-4 in favour of the resolution, which Snowden himself has called a “game-changer.”
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# asylum - Tuesday 27 October, 2015
Mental Health Ireland said it hoped organisers had not intended to portray people with mental health difficulties in a negative way.
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# asylum - Saturday 19 September, 2015
It’s Saturday, here’s what’s happening.
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# asylum - Friday 14 August, 2015
The man took advantage of his job at Addis Ababa airport to smuggle himself aboard the Ethiopian Airlines flight.
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# asylum - Saturday 11 July, 2015
The Direct Provision system is now “virtually full” according to justice minister Frances Fitzgerald.
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# asylum - Wednesday 1 July, 2015
Ireland has been warehousing asylum-seekers in Direct Provision since 2000. How can we stand by and allow children to live in these conditions?
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# asylum - Monday 11 May, 2015
Frances Fitzgerald can’t comment on the issue.
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# asylum - Thursday 7 May, 2015
Serious concerns have been expressed about the quality of life children in direct provision have.
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# asylum - Friday 27 March, 2015
Sue Conlan says the group has not been fully consulted on new legislation.
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# asylum - Tuesday 3 March, 2015
Aodhan Ó Riordáin expects a report on reforming the Direct Provision on his desk by Easter.
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# asylum - Tuesday 27 January, 2015
The Department of Justice said this was a reversal of recent trends.
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# asylum - Saturday 10 January, 2015
Three people living in direct provision centres explain what people don’t realise about their lives.
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# asylum - Wednesday 31 December, 2014
Direct Provision has revived the spectre of the workhouse in Ireland. It should be challenged by any Irish person that cares about equality and fairness.
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# asylum - Wednesday 12 November, 2014
“I pray to God I don’t have to go back to Sudan. At the least, I will be arrested. The least, you understand? I could be killed.”
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Three refugees who have fled their home countries due to political persecution share their stories.
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“There’s enough racism and enough anger out there, we don’t need to encourage it more.”
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# asylum - Wednesday 15 October, 2014
The living conditions endured by residents of direct provision centres is finally receiving scrutiny; but will the working group charged with examining the system improve it?
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# asylum - Monday 13 October, 2014
Representatives from a number of refugee rights groups are also part of the group.
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