History is repeating itself in reverse as immigrants to Ireland begin changing their names to westernised versions.

A report released yesterday has criticised the Department of Social Protection for the way it deals with some immigrants.

Staff at the Department of Social Protection (DSP) have been rude, racist and used abusive language when dealing with migrants, a new report shows.

How to prevent ethnic profiling will form a key part of the training delivered to a group of Cork-based gardaí who have signed up for a groundbreaking anti-racism project.

Nasc, the Irish Immigrant Support Centre, launched an anti-racism social media campaign yesterday for the month of September.

Facebook and Sky are pressurising the Government not to introduce legislation to clamp down on online abuse and bullying despite calls for stricter regulation of the internet to protect children.

Asylum seekers deserve the right to cook for themselves, writes Sharon Ní Chonchúir.

I am writing in response to Peter O’Dwyer’s article, in the Irish Examiner, on the “very generous” welfare payments EU citizens in Ireland “enjoy” (‘EU Citizens enjoy ‘very generous’ welfare here’, Oct 29).

The Department of Justice plans to renew efforts to ensure residents of refugee and asylum seeker centres fully engage with an established complaints procedure.

Violence and riots are on the rise throughout Europe, and often, immigrants are the targets, writes Jennifer DeWan

A Cork-based migrant rights group has made an official complaint to gardaí about a Facebook page which it claims is inciting racial hatred.

Cork City Council has become one of the largest local authorities to back a national campaign to make the buying of sex illegal.

Cork City Council is to vote on a motion calling for the criminalisation of the buying of sex which, if passed, would make it the latest local authority to back the measure.

WE refer to Cormac O’Keeffe’s moving article in your newspaper (Dec 5) and to the findings of a study by psychiatrist Dr Sayed Irtaza Hussein, which points to the high rates of psychiatric illness among asylum seekers, and to the fact that the centre where they live is “like a prison”.

MIGRANTS who have worked hard to establish a life for themselves and their families here are increasingly concerned about the security of their immigration status, a report has found.

FOREIGN nationals are being refused Irish citizenship due to a lack of “good character” and in some cases, because they have parking offences.

Scott Millar says asylum seekers are waiting too long for claims to be processed.

Sustained on subsistence payments while barred from working, many asylum seekers have spent years in legal and economic limbo. Scott Millar reports.

A BUSINESSWOMAN who displayed photographs of Roma women in her shop after a spate of shoplifting has called for the details of a meeting with the ethnic group to be made public.

MEMBERS of Cork’s Roma community have been invited to a special meeting next week to discuss recent complaints about alleged shoplifting in the city.

IMMIGRANTS will raise their election issues at a special meet-and-greet event with candidates in Cork today.

ONE of the country’s leading migrant support groups called on the Government yesterday to introduce a raft of changes to its immigration policy which is keeping families apart.

WORK started yesterday on an integration plan for Cork’s estimated 59,000 migrants that aims to improve their access to jobs and education.

HEARTLESS Government policy has prevented an African mother living in Ireland from seeing her eldest daughter for four years.

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

AN immigrant support group condemned a top English comedian yesterday for his “derogatory” references to gypsies during the Late Late Show last Friday.

A REPORT to be launched today by the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee is expected to criticise the OPW for wasting €3.5 million purchasing a Co Cork hotel five years ago which has never been used for its intended purpose as an asylum seeker centre.

THE Nigerian student Olukunle Elukanlo was never meant to be deported before his Leaving Certificate, Justice Minister Michael McDowell said yesterday.

I WISH to reply to the letter from Mr Ted Neville (Irish Examiner, Jan 7).