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The family of five are housed in a room of 23sq m and share a communal bathroom with other families
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How Ireland’s seas and rivers are becoming spaces for healing: ‘It changes how we pay attention to our bodies’
For decades, environmental psychology has explored why humans feel better outdoors in green spaces like forests, but attention is turning now to blue spaces, asking why water makes us feel happier
Inside the crisis at Oberstown: ‘We are in an emergency situation’
Agreement has been reached to increase staffing levels, although concerns remain about lack of capacity and an increase in detainees ‘acting out’
Wrong-way motorway driving could be detected by AI
Wrong-way motorway driving to face harsher penalties under new laws announced after M9 crash
Opposing views on Palestinian student visas
Green Party councillor calls on Jim O’Callaghan to intervene; UCC academic says universities showing contempt for native Irish students
Talks to prevent 48-hour work stoppage at State’s only child detention centre to begin
Oberstown has recently seen an increase the number of boys it is certified to accommodate, from 40 to 42
Electronic tagging contract awarded following delays
Pilot scheme to be rolled out on phased basis to alleviate pressure on prisons
We can and should do better for Gaza students seeking to study in Ireland
What is needed is a funded partnership model between the Government and the institutions backed by fee waivers and donor support
Visa refusals dismay Gazan students and undermine our academic institutions
These students from a genocide zone have demonstrated academic excellence despite the enormous obstacles in their way
Ireland supports Gaza – except for all the Gazan students it has denied visas
The reasons given for their refusal are beyond unreasonable
Deaths of children in domestic incidents to be subject to new national reviews
Currently no way of tracking or reviewing violent and tragic child deaths in Ireland
If universities have accepted applications from Gazan students, why not grant them visas?
O’Callaghan needs to sort this out as soon as possible before the academic year begins
Day centre may have to reduce services after Ukrainian staff forced to leave accommodation
Manager Irina Bereznytska, herself Ukrainian, says the centre is likely to operate for only two or three days a week
‘Every day we wait is a gamble for us’: Palestinian students continue to face visa rejections
UCD offered computer science student full scholarship but Department of Justice rejected visa for ‘financial’ reasons
Gaza student visa refusal evokes Ireland’s rejection of Jewish children seeking safety
A past minister for justice apologised for Irish failure to accept Jews fleeing Nazi persecution
‘Cull’ in study visas hurting Ireland’s English language sector, representative body claims
Student refusal rate has doubled in two years amid Government clampdown
Law society proposed compromises aimed at resolving dispute over criminal legal aid payments
Letter sent to Jim O’Callaghan setting out measures that could end row ‘under consideration’ by Department of Justice
The Irish Times view on financial crime: vigilance is required
Ireland is the third-largest exporter of financial services in the European Union
The Irish man handpicked by Gianni Infantino, solar eclipse and EU presidency hospitality
Plus: 14 young cattle die of dehydration on Tipperary farm
Meaningful reform of criminal legal aid system requires greater understanding of issues
Irish Penal Reform Trust disappointed by apparent lack of nuance in public debate on criminal legal aid
Jim O’Callaghan requested ‘unoppressive’ Irish traditional music for EU ministers
Jars of honey produced by bees on roof of Department of Justice gifted to dignitaries, internal records show
Three men extradited to Northern Ireland over machete attack in Co Fermanagh
Three set to stand trial for grievous bodily harm and aggravated burglary among other charges
Daniel Kinahan expected to be extradited to Ireland within days
Major security operation being finalised for return of Kinahan cartel boss to Dublin
Jim O’Callaghan needs to understand real reasons for delays in criminal justice system
They’re seldom caused by defence solicitors
Palestinian students and visas: Time for Taoiseach or Tánaiste to step in
Department of Justice's Kafkaesque decision embarrasses and humiliates most Irish people
Ukrainians obliged to find alternative accommodation as State winds down contracts
April data show 16,000 Ukrainians staying in more than 500 hotels and B&Bs paid for by taxpayer
Prison population at lowest point this year
With solicitor services absent, number just ‘weeks away’ from reaching 6,000, say sources
Business duo behind emergency accommodation firm share €4m payout
Kevin Farrell and Thomas McNicholas control several central Dublin properties used for refugee and homeless services
Protesters gather in solidarity with Gazan students denied visas to Ireland
Letter read from Palestinian student with scholarship to Irish university who was refused a visa
Striking lawyers don’t tend to evoke much public sympathy
Reform should not be treated as the alternative to controlling costs. We should have both
Owner of refugee accommodation provider got more than €3m in pay
Profits at firm owned by James McCarville rose sharply last year, accounts show
Six adult men removed from State on foot of deportation order
Individuals left the country on a chartered flight which took them from Dublin to Nigeria
‘Studying in Ireland was the hope I was holding on to’: Palestinian teacher ‘dying inside’ since visa refused
Teacher of English was accepted onto Master’s programme at UCD’s Belfield campus starting in September
Solicitors to consider Minister’s changes in criminal defence legal fee payments aimed at resolving dispute
Controversial €520 fee to remain in place under fresh proposals but two-thirds of payment to be made at start of case
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