# refugees - Thursday 7 November, 2019
Leo Varadkar says the rules were changed to allow asylum seekers to work, therefore they should be allowed to drive to that workplace.
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# refugees - Wednesday 6 November, 2019
Defending Direct provision, he said it ‘is an imperfect system, but not an inhumane one’.
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# refugees - Sunday 3 November, 2019
The recent discovery of 39 bodies in a lorry in Essex has put the crisis back under the spotlight.
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# refugees - Monday 30 September, 2019
Michael D Higgins made the speech in New York.
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# refugees - Sunday 29 September, 2019
Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan was speaking to RTÉ One’s The Week in Politics this afternoon.
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# refugees - Tuesday 23 July, 2019
The Department of Justice says it is aware of an incident in the centre.
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# refugees - Thursday 11 July, 2019
Filippo Grandi complimented Ireland on its resettlement efforts.
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# refugees - Monday 8 July, 2019
His comments come after reports over the weekend described one centre in Texas as filled with hundreds of children wearing filthy clothes.
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# refugees - Sunday 26 May, 2019
I find it obscene that Ireland is dragging its feet rather than creating an environment where families torn apart by war can start a new life, writes Senator Lynn Ruane.
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# refugees - Monday 1 April, 2019
The EU is winding down Operation Sophia amid pressure from Italy and other countries.
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# refugees - Saturday 30 March, 2019
Cork will be the latest area to become a so-called place of sanctuary – making it part of a wider national, and indeed international, movement.
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# refugees - Monday 25 March, 2019
The centre accommodated around 50 asylum seekers before it closed last June.
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# refugees - Saturday 23 March, 2019
The truth is my father was ashamed of our emergency, he was a proud man that had worked his quarter acre like a Trojan. Now he was nothing.
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# refugees - Sunday 17 March, 2019
Parents talk to us about why they are seeking asylum in Ireland and the impact of raising a family in an institutionalised setting.
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# refugees - Thursday 14 March, 2019
My new play attempts to capture the perspective of young people who have been in state care – humanity has to be at the core of our response, writes Fionnuala Kennedy.
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# refugees - Wednesday 13 March, 2019
About 70 residents at the Clondalkin centre have protected status and faced the risk of becoming homeless.
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# refugees - Tuesday 5 March, 2019
A meeting of the Lismore Welcome Project was interrupted last night.
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# refugees - Tuesday 12 February, 2019
Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week ruled out calling a snap election if his government was defeated over the “stupid” bill.
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# refugees - Sunday 13 January, 2019
The hotel was damaged in a suspected arson attack earlier this week.
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# refugees - Thursday 10 January, 2019
Almost 50 migrants who were stranded at sea for weeks aboard two rescue ships arrived in Malta yesterday.
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# refugees - Wednesday 9 January, 2019
Thousands have been left in need of emergency assistance, according to aid workers.
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# refugees - Thursday 27 December, 2018
They come here under the Irish Refugee Protection Programme.
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# refugees - Wednesday 5 December, 2018
Dublin City University analysed almost 7.5 million tweets during the period October 2015- May 2016.
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# refugees - Friday 23 November, 2018
EU leaders must end the practice of imprisoning unaccompanied minors in Hungary and throughout Europe, writes Sinn Fein senator Paul Gavan.
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# refugees - Sunday 18 November, 2018
The show has been developed to help children who are suffering from trauma.
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# refugees - Monday 5 November, 2018
The Irish Refugee Council said it hopes this show will contribute to the conversation taking place around the direct provision system.
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# refugees - Friday 19 October, 2018
The number has grown 40-fold since 2016.
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# refugees - Sunday 29 July, 2018
Some boys fail to come forward for help due to gender stereotypes, Unicef has said.
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# refugees - Tuesday 3 July, 2018
Merkel has put to rest a row with her interior minister Horst Seehofer that had threatened the survival of her coalition government.
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# refugees - Wednesday 27 June, 2018
Over 3,000 people will be eligible for the new scheme which will allow asylum seekers take up temporary and permanent positions.
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# refugees - Sunday 17 June, 2018
The Aquarius has caused a major diplomatic row over European immigration policy.
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# refugees - Saturday 9 June, 2018
‘Children are growing up in Zaatari refugee camp having never known any other home,’ writes Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney.
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# refugees - Wednesday 6 June, 2018
A report found the housing crisis is ‘contributing to bottlenecks’ in the asylum system.
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# refugees - Monday 28 May, 2018
The mother had been kidnapped in Libya and was subjected to regular beatings before she escaped.
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# refugees - Wednesday 25 April, 2018
Some people are waiting over two years for a decision on their asylum application.
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# refugees - Monday 19 March, 2018
A Sudanese journalist and painter talks about fleeing his home country after receiving death threats.
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# refugees - Sunday 18 March, 2018
A Syrian refugee explains why he left his home country to start a new life in Ireland.
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# refugees - Saturday 17 March, 2018
Another three people are missing after the boat went down overnight.
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An expert has said better integration of asylum seekers and refugees must play a role in this process.
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# refugees - Tuesday 13 March, 2018
New research found some people denied entry were held in prisons for a number of days before being sent back to their country of origin.
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