The Government has again been called on to commit to solutions that allow people to safely and legally escape persecution - after another group of migrants was found trying to enter Ireland in a cargo ship.

Ireland will see more cases of people risking their lives to come here unless the Government commits to solutions that allow people to safely and legally escape persecution.

Gardaí do not believe that the 39 people found dead in a container yesterday in the UK were trafficked through Ireland.

Ireland should more than double its annual intake of refugees over the coming three years to meet its “fair share” of the projected global refugee resettlement need, a migrant umbrella group has said.

The Taoiseach has been accused of making "disingenuous" and factually incorrect statements about the Direct Provision system for asylum seekers.

“Today was a both a celebration of who we are in Ireland now"

Ireland is among six EU countries which have agreed to take in migrants stranded on a rescue ship in the Mediterranean.

The Irish Refugee Council (IRC) has said asylum seekers are struggling to access basic services such as healthcare, when in the State system.

Today is World Refugee Day. That may not mean much to most people living in Ireland but, in common with other

An urgent review has been demanded into how deaths in Direct Provision are handled after a transgender woman was buried without anyone she knew present.

The Irish Refugee Council has called for a review of how deaths in Direct Provision are handled after a transgender woman was buried without a ceremony or anyone close to her present.

Iyad El-Baghdadi said he was denied boarding at Berlin airport this morning because he was a refugee.

The Government has been accused of backing down “in the face of racist arson attacks” by shelving plans for a direct provision centre in Rooskey in Leitrim.

Plans have been dropped to move 80 asylum seekers into a disused hotel in Rooskey, Co Leitrim.

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.

The Irish Refugee Council has called on Health Minister Simon Harris to put in place special measures for women in direct provision who wish to seek abortion services.

The private firm that is shutting down the largest direct provision centre in the capital received payments totalling €27.5m from the State over an 11 year period for operating the centre, new figures show.

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.

Asylum seekers will soon be allowed to work, but face cuts to their allowances and extra accommodation costs according to their income levels.

The Irish human rights watchdog is to press the Government to ensure that measures to protect against exploitation are included in any conditions, for access to employment, for people living in direct provision.

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

The Irish Refugee Council has called on the Justice Minister to give more details on his promise that asylum seekers would soon be allowed to work.

The Irish Refugee Council has called for asylum seekers to be allowed the right to work after spending six months in the country.

Only two asylum seekers qualified last year for third-level grant support under a Government scheme designed to assist young people in the protection system.

The Dáil has approved Ireland's participation in a European programme to disrupt human trafficking in the Mediterranean.

Up to 3,000 asylum seekers could soon be eligible to join the workforce after the Supreme Court found banning them from employment is unconstitutional.

The Irish Refugee Council has called for extra resources to help people deal with changes to the asylum process here.

The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform in the US is urging the country’s 50,000 undocumented Irish not to panic about President Trump’s clampdown on immigration — as it will only impact undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records.