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The number of unaccompanied Ukrainian minors requiring Tusla care or accommodation has increased by more than 50 per cent since last year, with Ukrainians now the largest national cohort of unaccompanied children the State cares for.The vast majority are boys aged 16 or 17, said the agency.Figures provided by ...

Legal challenges and security concerns around travel are adding to a deportation backlog of scores of failed asylum seekers out of the State, The Irish Times has learned. The issue of delays in deportations has come into focus this week after a 26-year-old was accused of assaulting a young ...

Fourteen years ago, US president Barack Obama stepped on stage at Dublin’s College Green to a rapturous reception. The 60,000 crowd had been worked up to hysterical levels of excitement by warm-up acts including Westlife and Jedward, and sports figures Brian O’Driscoll and Katie Taylor, as well as Taoiseach ...

More than 100 tired and weary walkers carrying Palestinian flags made their way along the north side of the Dublin quays shortly after 7pm on Saturday, as the final rays of the August evening sunshine reflected off the Liffey. The group, led by the Boyle Palestine Solidarity Group, were ...

An Indian taxi driver faces losing his livelihood after an unprovoked attack by two passengers last week amid a growing number of racist assaults in Ireland.“My children are so scared, they have asked me to promise them that I will never drive a taxi again,” said Lakhvir Singh (46).He ...

Asylum seekers from Pakistan will have their applications fast-tracked under plans introduced on Tuesday.The Department of Justice said applications from Pakistan have grown “considerably” in recent years. In each of the last two quarters, Pakistani nationals ranked as the second-highest nationality for international protection applications.As of July 24th, 905 ...

“I wish I had more time to read,” says Gabriela Lobianco, as she talks about her weekly schedule pursuing a PhD at Cork University Business School, caring for her 10-year-old daughter and juggling a couple of part-time jobs required to make ends meet.Lobianco estimates work, in its various forms, ...

Pope Leo XIV has appealed for “never again war” in what he described as “today’s dramatic context of a third world war fought piecemeal”.In his first Regina Caeli address, the Queen of Heaven prayer recited by Catholics instead of the Angelus between Easter and Ascension Day, he referred to ...

A 43-year-old man has been given time to put his family affairs in order as he faces the prospect of being jailed for a series of cybercrime offences including offering people computer software designed to disrupt IT systems as well as false bank accounts and credit cards.Suleman Mazhar, previously ...

A four-year-old boy who died after being struck by a car in Co Westmeath was laid to rest on Wednesday afternoon.Abdur Rehman, who recently moved to the Farranshock housing estate in Mullingar with his parents, died shortly after 6:30pm on Monday.It is understood Abdur was on a scooter when ...