A vulnerable young woman who came here from Africa as a teenager and spent about two years in direct provision has been so traumatised she still refuses to sleep in a bed, the president of the High Court has heard.

An ‘exploited’ migrant cannabis grow house worker is to formally apply for asylum here after her release from prison next week.

The Taoiseach stressed there were still far fewer asylum seekers coming here than was the case 15 or 20 years ago.

CÉAD míle fáilte. Ireland, the land of a thousand welcomes — my backside. You are welcome here if you’re white, rich, or American, but if you’re not, there is no room at the inn.

The Department of Justice has postponed plans to accommodate asylum-seekers in Achill, Mayo.

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has described the treatment of a TG4 cameraman at a public meeting on Achill island earlier this week as “deeply disturbing”.

A Laois parish priest has hit out at the increasing opposition against asylum-seekers in Ireland.

The number of people seeking asylum in Ireland has risen 53% in the first nine months of the year.

The number of people arriving in Ireland as asylum seekers has increased by 53% in the first nine months of the year, putting direct provision and other accommodation centres under growing strain.

The lives of asylum seekers are being put in danger in Tamaulipas state by the US government’s Migration Protection Protocol (MPP) and Mexico’s government lack of humanitarian assistance, the international medical organisation has warned.

A practice direction governing cases in the High Court's asylum and immigration list is being reviewed.

The mother of a man who drowned alongside his young daughter while trying to reach the US has said she is comforted by how they clung to each other in their final moments.

The migrant crisis and a reform of the international protection system led to a 140% increase in appeals against decisions to deny asylum seeker status in Ireland.

When one of the red lights on a car dashboard starts flashing, any sensible person will stop and check the owner’s manual.

There was a 26% increase in the number of new asylum seekers in Ireland last year, despite a general decline across the EU in foreign nationals applying for refugee status.

Ireland is among the European countries who have taken in the fewest number of asylum seekers in recent years, according to a new report.

When violence raises its head in society it dwarfs all else and requires a response that simply cannot be left open to be interpreted as equivocation, writes Michael Clifford.

A Saudi teenager who holed up in Thailand after fleeing alleged abuse by her family will leave Bangkok for Canada, according to Thailand's immigration police chief.

An asylum seeker who became pregnant following a relationship with a security guard at a direct provision centre has settled a High Court action over a refusal to register her child's father's surname on the boy's birth certificate.

The Department of Justice has confirmed it intends to open a centre for asylum-seekers on the Roscommon-Leitrim border before Christmas.

President Donald Trump is expected to announce plans to deny asylum to migrants who try to enter the US illegally between ports of entry.

Roughly 5,000 people, mostly from Central America’s violent and unstable “Northern Triangle” of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras are reportedly making their way through Mexico with the intention of claiming asylum at the U.S. border.

The recent dramatic protest by Swedish student Elin Errson, who delayed a flight in a bid to prevent an Afghan man from being deported to a perilous future in the country he had fled, is an excellent illustration of how to act responsibly – and shows us why there is no excuse for passivity.

The numbers who have been granted asylum here but remain in State-funded direct provision centres has soared by almost 50% to 591 in the past 16 months.

The Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan is to put "certain options” to a mother and her two Irish-born daughters, aged eight and 13, who are fighting orders for their deportation to the mother’s native Georgia, the High Court has heard.

The “big-ticket items” that could have substantially improved life for asylum seekers in Ireland have still not been addressed, three years after a seminal report recommended numerous changes to direct provision and the level of support available.

“If somebody claims asylum in Ireland today and their case is not prioritised, they won’t actually be interviewed until the middle of 2019.”

In significant judgements the Court of Appeal has overturned refusals by the Minister for Justice to allow the non-Irish national spouses of three Irish citizens either enter or remain with them in the State, writes Ann O’Loughlin.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has been accused of being “offensive” and “negatively stereotyping” asylum seekers in heated exchanges in the Seanad.

Masoud, an Egyptian dentist, kissed his wife and two kids goodbye nine months ago with the intention of a short stay in Ireland to complete exams. He is still in Cork after a threat of arrest for his peaceful activism was issued by Egyptian authorities and has never met his youngest daughter. He fears for his life should he return home. He spoke to Rob McNamara about his experience.

Urine-stained bedclothes, insect infestations, and substandard facilities for children in emergency and asylum housing can only be rooted out with tougher inspections, the Government has been told.

French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has outlined a plan to address the high number of migrants arriving in the country.