The Garda National Immigration Bureau opens on Saturday for a second time today in an attempt to reduce queues and improve the service, which was described by the former minister Alan Shatter as being in badly need of reform.

A former Garda National Immigration Bureau employee has been acquitted of accepting bribes for issuing false visas to Chinese students.

All foreign visitors to Japan will be fingerprinted from next month as defence against terrorism.

CHILDREN attending a playschool near Killarney were upset when immigration officials took away a three-year-old Nigerian boy for deportation, a parents’ representative said yesterday.

The once-famous Irish Press newspaper building in Dublin has new tenants.