The unfolding refugee crisis is become the biggest humanitarian tragedy in Europe since the Yugoslav wars.

Syrians are not leaving their homeland because of IS beheadings, but because they’re victims of unforseen circumstances, writes Donna O’Regan

Hillary Clinton is calling for a “concerted global effort” to assist the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia seeking refuge in Europe.

The Immigrant Council of Ireland has said a fair and efficient process needs to be in place when refugees arrive here from the Middle East, as confusion remained over the numbers expected here.

Fresh confusion surrounds the Government’s response to the refugee crisis after Tánaiste Joan Burton said Ireland would take in 5,000 Syrians under the UN’s resettlement programme.

An appeal to Catholic parishes to take in refugees could see several thousand families from Syria and other conflict countries rehomed across the country.

Bob Geldof declared on the Dave Fanning radio show that he is immediately going to put up some of the migrant families in his properties in England.

May I suggest a part solution to the migrant problem.

IT is a reassuring victory for humanity and the power of redemption — one of the great and underestimated forces of conscience and decency — that Germany has assumed the role of Europe’s moral leader by spearheading the EU’s response to the refugee crisis.

It’s easy to muster compassion for people fleeing wars, but Europe also needs an influx of workers to counteract its falling birth rates, says Ian Buruma 

Hundreds of angry and frustrated asylum-seekers broke through police lines near Hungary’s southern border with Serbia and began marching north toward Budapest as European leaders debated how to share responsibility to ease the crisis.

A Hungarian MP has warned of the threat of possible terrorists coming through borders and into the EU.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that all EU countries can help to accommodate the human tide from the Middle East and Africa.

The Tánaiste Joan Burton has said thousands of refugees expected to be taken in by Ireland will not be housed in direct provision centres.

French President Francois Hollande says his country will welcome 24,000 refugees.

Australia prime minister Tony Abbott said his country will resettle a “significant” number of refugees from Syria this year.

Thousands more refugees from Syria and Afghanistan are expected to cross European borders today.

The United Nation’s humanitarian agencies are “financially broke” a senior figure has said, as the organisation attempts to provide aid for tens of thousands of people fleeing war.

The Government is drawing up plans to house more than 5,000 refugees fleeing the Mediterranean crisis in empty State-owned properties to ensure they are not thrown into the already over-crowded direct provision system.

While the desperate flight of Syrians from their country’s war was dominating news bulletins, yet another diplomatic push to end the four-year-old conflict was quietly running into the sand.

Thousands of refugees yesterday streamed into Germany — many travelling through Austria from Hungary where they had been stranded against their will for days — while EU governments argue over how to respond.

Malawi, “the warm heart of Africa”, ranks in the bottom 15 of the United Nation’s human development index. A huge proportion of its nearly 17m population live in poverty, infant mortality is extremely high, and life expectancy is low.

Europe has not, will not, and cannot stop the flow of humans seeking a better life. So they should deal with the situation humanely, legally and quickly, writes Robert Young.

Most children don’t want to talk about the war. They dream of going back to school, writes Aleksandar Lazovski

It began with the creation of the catch-all concept (a legal freak) of a migrant’, which obscures the difference, central to the law, between economic and political migration, between people escaping poverty and people driven from their homes by war.

AN understanding of the extent of the appalling refugee crisis in Southern Europe has finally reached the Vatican.

Norma Costello travels to Keleti train station in Budapest, and speaks to some desperate Afghan children who crossed six countries only to encounter more hostility and police aggression.

Police stood by as thousands of migrants hopped on cross-border trains into Austria, taking advantage of Hungary’s surprise decision to stop screening international train travellers for travel visas.

The Tánaiste Joan Burton has said there is no upper-limit to how many refugees Ireland may take.

Thousands of migrants and refugees have arrived by train and bus in cities across Germany overnight.

Thousands of exhausted, elated refugees have reached their dream destinations of Germany and Austria, completing epic journeys by boat, bus, train and foot to escape war and poverty.

Bob Geldof’s offer to give a home to Syrian refugees is “pie in the sky” and councils need more resources from the British Government to house those fleeing the conflict, a council chief has warned.

Real Madrid are to donate €1m to aid refugees taken in by Spain, the Primera Division club have announced.

Austria has said it expects up to 10,000 migrants to arrive from Hungary today.

A national day of action is being held at famine memorials across Ireland to show solidarity with refugees.

The aunt of the drowned Syrian boy whose death sparked global outrage about the plight of refugees in Europe says she still hopes to bring the rest of her family to Canada.

More than 1,000 refugees boarded scores of buses provided by Hungary’s government and arrived before dawn at the border with Austria.

Britain will take “thousands more” refugees from camps on the borders of war-torn Syria, as well as providing an additional £100m in aid for those fleeing the conflict, British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.

Hundreds of refugees have broken through a police cordon and fled from a train being held near an asylum camp in Hungary.

President Michael D Higgins has said the United Nations and European Union have failed tens of thousands of refugees and migrants dying and risking death for a new life.

Hundreds of refugees who have been stuck for days in Budapest have gathered their belongings and started marching out of the city, vowing to make it to Austria on foot.

The Syrian man who survived a capsizing during a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece has taken the bodies of his wife and two sons back to the Syrian Kurdish region they fled, to bury them in their hometown of Kobani.

Thousands of frustrated refugees remain stranded at Budapest’s main railway station after abandoning a pledge to make their way to Vienna on foot.

Bob Geldof says he is ashamed of Europe's handling of the refugee crisis and he has offered to take in four families to assist in the growing crisis.