Solicitors for a methadone-dependent asylum seeker have succeeded in preventing his swift transfer to a new direct provision centre on the basis that he may not have been able to access the services he needs.

MORE than €1.2 million was paid out by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner (ORAC) to lawyers of asylum seekers suing the state for refusing to allow them to stay in the country.

A MAN’s life has been left in asylum-seeking limbo for 14 years, while he has attempted to navigate the broken asylum system which has been threatening to deport him since 2000.

IRELAND has emerged as the country with the strictest regime for granting asylum seekers any sort of protection within the EU.

A British couple thought to be among those who died in the Thai air disaster were planning to marry during their holiday, neighbours and friends said.

FINE Gael has called for the asylum system to be overhauled to ensure applicants do not have to endure “an endless legal limbo”.

A humanitarian quota system should be set up to give asylum to 1,000 victims of conflict or natural disasters each year, it was claimed today.

REFUGEE groups last night welcomed a new deal agreed by the Department of Justice for the provision of all refugee translation services.