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.

DOCTORS have been contacting asylum seeker support groups in desperate efforts to secure untrained interpreters, it has emerged.

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.