TWO people were arrested yesterday after trouble flared at a reception centre for refugees and asylum seekers.

SERVING gardaí are to undergo anti-racism training as part of the force’s new recruitment drive among ethnic minorities.

TWENTY families of Irish-born children have been deported and more than 1,500 others have been threatened with the same fate since a Supreme Court ruling of January 2003.

A network of community and voluntary groups working with immigrants and refugees in Ireland has criticised the lack of real debate on the Government’s proposed citizenship referendum.

IMAGINE, if you can, that first your husband and then your son have been murdered by burning and you are told you are next on the list. You feel you must leave the country and go to a safer place — a place where you believe and hope you can find sanctuary.