It may take more than 18 months to process the asylum applications of 8 people found at Rosslare Port.

Ireland will be examined on its record on civil and political rights at the UN Human Rights Committee hearing in Geneva this morning.

Rates of immigrants who become Irish citizens are among the lowest in Europe, new research has revealed.

A major report to be published later this week by the Council of Europe is expected to criticise Ireland for failing to recognise transgender people.

The Government is being urged to review the Incitement to Hatred Act after new figures reveal that a quarter of all stabbing victims here over the last five years were foreign nationals.