Twenty-four Romanian men aged between 24 and 57 were deported from Ireland on foot of Immigration Orders from Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan, gardaí have said.
The officer commanding Ireland's final peacekeeping contingent in southern Lebanon has said that next month's mission is "very poignant and very difficult" for members of the Defence Forces.
Hundreds of people have paid their respects at the Sacred Heart Church in Waterford this afternoon where the bodies of Kim and Phillip English and their sons Callum and Jayden are lying in repose.
A new play revisits the story of Ireland’s 18th-century German refugees, whose experience of prejudice and exclusion resonates with today’s debates over immigration
In the early 18th century, a few thousand Germans fled religious persecution and near starvation in their homeland and ended up in remote rural Irish villages. The Irish Palatines, as they were known, were poor, conservative homesteaders who couldn’t speak the language and were the object of suspicion and violence – precursors to the displaced Syrians or Afghans of the past decade.
Their story is told in Refuge, a co-production between Staatstheater Mainz and the Irish company Fishamble. Part love story, part social commentary, it is performed by a mixed cast, mainly in English but with some German interludes.
As unions prepare to sit down with the Government to hammer out a new pay deal there is a determination among workers that any new deal must cover increases in the cost of living.
Michael Walsh says the loss of his cousin, 75-year-old retired farmer Tom Niland in west Sligo, is still deeply felt following his death in September 2023.
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