Ireland is toughest in EU for asylum process

GENUINE asylum seekers are at risk of being deported because Ireland is now the toughest country in the EU to receive protection in, a new report has said.

Ireland has taken over from Greece as the EU state with the lowest level of positive determinations for refugee applications.

The “distressing” trend is detailed in a report published by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and the Irish Penal Reform Trust, just days before the Government is questioned for the first time about its record at a UN committee on torture.