Athlete David Gillick is among those advocating for a teenage boy and his family to stay in Ireland after they were issued with a deportation order. Titilayo Oluwakemi Oyekanmi and her three sons, Samuel, Joseph and Genesis, came to Ireland in late 2023 from South Africa. Their asylum application was rejected and a subsequent appeal … Read more
The High Court has ordered the return of €142,500 deposit paid by a company that wanted to buy a former small hotel to turn it into an International Protection Accommodation Service (Ipas) centre. Outeniqua Ltd, which was set up by a number of people who have invested in companies that purchase and run Ipas properties, … Read more
Sithembiso Ndlovu stepped outside the Gateway Integration Centre on Dublin’s East Wall Road for the first time on the morning of December 23rd, 2022. The offices in the surrounding area had closed for Christmas and the streets felt quiet. However, Ndlovu was nervous. She’d seen the videos of protesters outside the building she now called … Read more
The Government has stopped opening new asylum seeker accommodation centres in certain parts of the country, including north inner-city Dublin, due to “local and political feedback”, according to internal Government documents seen by The Irish Times. Under the policy, the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS), an agency of the Department of Integration, stopped accepting several … Read more
The annual State spend in accommodating International Protection (IP) applicants last year topped €1 billion for the first time. The daily average spend of €2.75 million per day in accommodating IP applicants is revealed in new figures provided by the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Norma Foley TD. In the figures provided … Read more