YOUR political correspondent Shaun Connolly (March 24) finds the cabinet reshuffle to be “not so much the Night of the Long Knives, more like the Night of the Living Dead”.

EMIGRATION, which is now facing many Irish workers, was top of the agenda yesterday at a conference at the University of Limerick (UL).

THERE has been a 65% increase in the number of Irish workers moving overseas since 2002.

THE Government’s immigration policy is still failing adults and children residing here, and upcoming legislation might only complicate matters further, a conference heard yesterday.

IRELAND is facing a racial time bomb because of a lack of legislation to promote immigrants’ rights, the author of a report claimed yesterday.

ON July 2 last, the Irish Examiner published an article headed ‘University in bid to cut losses’. I would like to correct a number of errors in the article in connection with the closure of the Irish Centre for Migration Studies, of which I am director.

LEADING academics and immigrant support groups have condemned the decision by University College Cork (UCC) to close the Irish Centre for Migration Studies.