ETHNIC profiling, which is a form of racial discrimination, is being facilitated by the Irish state, a report by the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) has found.

Five housekeepers at a well-known Dublin hotel have scored a victory over management after their minimum wage salaries were cut.

The Government's plan to cut the minimum wage by €1 or 12% to €7.65 has come in for criticism.

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.

THE organisers of the Claiming Our Future citizens forum are planing events across the country in what they claim is an attempt to give voice to the ground swell of support for progressive social and economic policies.

A protest is being held outside Supermacs in Dublin today organised by the Restaurant Workers Action Group

SEVERAL thousand illegal immigrants open to immediate expulsion are to be allowed stay in the country for at least four months under legislation published yesterday.

MANY Nigerian women trafficked into Ireland for prostitution refuse to identify their traffickers because of voodoo rituals, an expert has told a conference.

ROGUE employers had to fork out more than €1 million to workers in the two-year period to March 2008.

A DUBLIN restaurant has been ordered to pay a migrant worker €116,000 compensation for gross breaches in employment law, it emerged yesterday.

The Government tonight came under heavy criticism for proposed new laws on immigrants which include robust powers to remove illegal asylum seekers.

IN the past week, a judge sentenced four migrant workers to jail for failing to have the proper documentation entitling them to work in Ireland.

JUDGE James O’Connor was reported recently to have ordered a man to leave the country within 48 hours or serve seven months in jail for receiving stolen property.