Tag: Irish

It was July 2015 and Salman Jamal was returning from Mogadishu’s international airport when a massive blast ripped through the city centre street where he was driving. His two passengers, both journalists who had flown into the Somali capital that morning, were killed in the explosion, while Jamal, a ...

Just seven countries met World Health Organisation (WHO) standards on international air quality in 2023, according to a new report.Of 134 countries and regions surveyed, only Australia, Estonia, Finland, Grenada, Iceland, Mauritius and New Zealand are meeting a WHO guideline limit for harmful fine-particle, or PM2.5, pollution – caused ...

Ukraine is “sitting on a nuclear powder keg” and the western world must not abandon it to its fate, said peace activist, charity founder and former presidential candidate Adi Roche as she received a major international peace award in London on Saturday.Ms Roche, the founder of Chernobyl Children International ...

In heavy rain and strong winds on Monday, dozens of male asylum seekers – most of whom had indoor beds over the weekend – struggled to erect tents on the pavements around the International Protection Office (IPO) in Dublin city centre.Others, who had tents before they took emergency beds, ...

About 160 male asylum seekers, most of whom had slept in tents in sub-zero temperatures on Thursday night, were provided with beds on Friday night as a “cold weather response” by the Department of Children and Integration.On Saturday morning, however, about 20 were back at their tents, having been ...

At about 8pm on Tuesday night two young men, just in from Afghanistan, arrived at the International Protection Office in Dublin city centre – not to apply for asylum, which they had already done in the afternoon, but to find a space on the pavement to sleep.Carrying a small ...

About 20 homeless asylum seekers and supporters protested outside the Department of Integration on Thursday calling for the “basic human right” of accommodation.The men, from countries including Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan and Somalia, have been sleeping outside the headquarters of the International Protection Office (IPO) on nearby Mount Street Lower ...

An anti-immigrant march clashed with pro-immigration activists on Dublin's O'Connell Street. Video: Gareth Chaney/ Colm Keena There was a large turnout of gardaí, including members of the public order unit, to police an anti-immigration march in Dublin on Monday afternoon that filed past a counter-protest on O’Connell Street before ...

The High Court has granted a temporary order restraining a businessman from interfering with a contract to provide accommodation to asylum seekers at three properties.CRM Properties Limited alleges it has paid €1.47 million to Hamid Butt since it agreed with the Department of Integration in May 2022 to house ...

January 8thBolsonaro mob storms Brazil’s parliamentSupporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro storm the country’s government buildings in Brasilia, following Bolsonaro’s 2022 election defeat and the inauguration of Luis Ignátio Lula da Silva as Brazil’s new president. When he was in power, Bolsonaro was known as the “mini-Trump” and ...