Correction: Eurostat data on non-EU citizens living illegally in Ireland

Eurostat has corrected inaccurate statistics which originally claimed Ireland had the highest number of non-EU citizens found to be illegally present in any EU country last year.

The statistics reported by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, and reproduced in this newspaper, initially said that Ireland had a 28.9% rate of non-EU citizens found to be here illegally in 2023 per 1,000 Irish inhabitants.