Ireland has received just one family and blamed ‘low take up’ on refugees who had not wished to complete the first step of applying for asylum, writes Victoria White.

DROUGHT-HIT Somalia is stretching the work of relief workers to their limits and is facing a fully-fledged humanitarian catastrophe, aid agencies have warned.

THE number of Nigerians seeking asylum here dropped by 50% this year compared with 2008, Department of Justice figures show.

A British shipping union chief called for tougher action against piracy after a British-owned vessel was seized by Somalians in the Gulf of Aden.

A Somali refugee who brought an African drug called 'khat' from London, where it is legal, to Ireland, where it is illegal, has had his sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.