DESPITE a week of protests, the Department of Justice has stated it is committed to moving over 100 asylum seekers at the Mosney accommodation centre, Co Meath, to Dublin.

The Department of Justice is today starting to transfer over 100 asylum seekers from their accomodation in Mosney, Co Meath.

THERE is no formal agency collecting information, research or statistics in relation to racism and integration.

Anti-racism campaigners are planning a protest in Dublin today as the State prepares to send more than 40 Nigerian nationals back to their home country.

THE AUTISTIC boy deported with his mother recently is being attacked on the streets of Nigeria because of his condition, the family’s solicitor claimed yesterday.

A Nigerian mother and her two young children are to be deported from Dublin later today.

A High Court action brought by a Romanian woman and her six-month-old baby who has been staying at a camp on a roundabout on the M50 aimed at securing family support services has been adjourned until Friday.

The remaining members of the Roma community who were camped out on the M50 roundabout have agreed to the State's offer of free flights back to Romania.

IRELAND’S criminal law is not equipped to deal with racially motivated crime, it has been suggested.

THE Iranian who stitched his mouth together on hunger strike in protest at his asylum appeal has begun drinking water after removing the stitching.

FRIENDS of an Iranian asylum seeker who has sewn his mouth shut were last night pleading with him to end his hunger strike.

UP TO €3 million will be spent on hiring aircraft to deport illegal immigrants from Ireland over the next two years.

THE Fields of Athenry aren’t so lonely now. In fact, in years to come those fields will be packed with more than the 70,000 who were actually present because the bewildered will try convince their grandchildren that — as Max Boyce is wont to say — “I was there”.

Various groups are protesting at Minister for Justice Michael McDowell’s handling of the recent hunger strike situation as 33 Afghan asylum seekers face criminal charges at Kilmainham District Court in Dublin today.

There's bitter disappointment tonight that a potential breakthrough in the Afghan stand-off has fallen through.

A stand-off between Gardai and 40 afghan hunger strikers is continuing in St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.

High Court Judge, Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne, is expected to deal with an application for leave to bring judicial review proceedings, challenging the deportation of Nigerian Olunkunle Elukanlo.

ent Olunkunle Eluhanla is taking a judicial review against the Government’s second attempt to deport him, it was confirmed today.

The Nigerian student Olunkunle Eluhanla is preparing a legal challenge to halt his deportation, it emerged tonight.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell is deporting the Nigerian student Olunkunle Eluhanla in revenge for the political embarrassment he caused him, it was claimed today.

SENATOR Mary O’Rourke last night refused to apologise for her contentious comments on blacks, but backed calls for a Government campaign to wipe out racist language in Irish society.

Seanad leader Mary O’Rourke today refused to apologise over claims that she used a racist remark to praise her supporters.

Dozens of asylum seekers who are facing deportation tonight held a vigil to protest against being separated from their families over Christmas.

Nineteen Nigerian nationals have been deported to Lagos following the rejection of their asylum applications.

An unknown number of Nigerian nationals are being arrested for deportation by the Gardaí today, according to a group campaigning for better treatment of immigrants and asylum seekers.

Anti-racism campaigners have claimed that Minister for Justice Michael McDowell is unfit to be in charge of Ireland's asylum system.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell has been urged to hand over the issue of asylum to an independent body.

Gardaí have reportedly deported at least 40 Nigerians on a specially chartered flight that departed from Dublin Airport under cover of darkness last night.

A group campaigning on behalf of immigrants and asylum seekers has called for a complete re-examination of the deportation process.

CAMPAIGN groups and charities who protest against Government policies have accused the State of intimidation after they were told they would have to reveal details of donations they receive.

A group campaigning against deportations in Ireland has claimed that gardaí are preparing to return dozens of Nigerians to their homeland on a secret charter flight tonight.

An anti-racism demo in Dublin today called for an amnesty for all asylum-seekers living in Ireland for a number of years.

The system to deal with asylum seekers is being described as ad hoc and unfair by the Residents Against Racism group who have called for reform of immigrant policy.

A seven-year-old boy has been left behind in Ireland after his parents and four-year-old brother were deported to Romania, it emerged today.

The Residents Against Racism organisation has accused the Gardaí of illegally deporting a Nigerian asylum-seeker yesterday morning.

A Nigerian asylum seeker was deported from Ireland today while his appeal was still being processed, an anti-racism pressure group has claimed.

MINISTER for Overseas Development Conor Lenihan is this morning under pressure to meet Gama workers to personally apologise for calling them “kebabs” in the Dáil yesterday.

JUSTICE MINISTER Michael McDowell was strongly criticised yesterday for saying asylum seekers invented “cock and bull” stories to stay in the country.

The Residents Against Racism group has condemned the Government following reports that deportation papers have been served on another Nigerian family in Athlone.

ABOUT 70 Nigerians are remaining on hunger strike in protest over fears they are to be deported.

Activists campaigning against the deportation of asylum seekers have mounted a protest outside the Progressive Democrats' headquarters in Dublin.

An anti-racism group is accusing the Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, of failing to run the asylum process in a fair and transparent manner.

The Residents Against Racism organisation has vowed to keep up its campaign for the return of all the Nigerian people deported to their home country by the Government two weeks ago.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell does not remember if he read the file of Nigerian student Olunkunle Elunkanlo before deciding to deport him in controversial circumstances.