THE Government must bring in new work permit laws to guarantee immigrant workers the minimum wage and a concrete means to verify that pay, Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins insisted at the weekend.

The refusals of Michael McDowell or the Garda to clarify deportation details is disturbing, writes Paul O’Brien.

“A CROWD of us was going along the Shepherds Bush Road when out of a lane came a chap with a donkey — just the sort of donkey and just the sort of cart they have at home,” Michael Collins explained, recalling his days in London.

A WOMAN deported from Ireland last week, along with 34 other people, needed medical intervention during the flight, it has emerged.