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

A new dedicated immigration facility at Dublin Airport is due to open in the coming months.

Ireland is in breach of its international human rights obligations by continuing to detain immigrants in prison and garda stations who have been refused entry to the country, a new report shows.

THAT photo has got be the turning point. The dead toddler on the beach. Three-year-old Alyan Kurdi, lifeless in his little black shoes.

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

Fiona Finn (“Immigrants not expecting welfare”, Irish Examiner, Nov 4) asserts that Peter O’Dwyer’s article (Oct 29) ” deceives by omission”.

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).

Racist incidents are being reported at a rate of eight per week, according to a new survey by the Immigrant Council of Ireland, which claimed there has been a surge in cases this summer.

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

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”.

IT was four in the morning when Immigration officers of the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) stormed into the Reception Centre on the Kinsale road — for the wrong man.

FOR the past four years, Halima Usman and her nine-year-old daughter have been dreaming about shutting the door for the last time on their asylum seeker residential housing in north Cork.

AS a country we have fought hard to have civil rights respected. Unfortunately, the new Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2110 has many aspects which we fear will lead to breaches of civil and fundamental rights of migrants and their family members who are Irish citizens.

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.