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Old March 9th, 2009 #101
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Old March 18th, 2009 #102
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Default European people trafficking trial goes ahead in the Netherlands

FOLLOWING an international investigation involving gardaí, 11 people accused of forcing up to 150 young Nigerian girls into prostitution in Europe have gone on trial in the Netherlands.

The traffickers, mainly Nigerian, are accused of bringing the girls into the Netherlands as asylum seekers with false identity papers and instructions for an application in 2007.

The girls would then disappear from the asylum system only to reappear in other European countries.

In 2008, a Nigerian girl suspected of being trafficked into Ireland and forced to work as a prostitute was brought to the attention of gardaí and other state agencies in Kilkenny.

Kilkenny District Court was told the 17-year-old had spoken with members of Ruhama, an organisation that works with prostitutes and trafficking victims, and that gardaí had received documentation from the Nigerian embassy, which had spoken with the minor. The Health Service Executive was asked to intervene, but the girl disappeared.

In another case, an RTÉ reporter found a Nigerian girl who had been trafficked via London and Belfast to be placed in brothels and apartments here. She was expected to give her share of the money to the man who brought her over and the rest to the agency owner.

http://hailireland.blogspot.com/2009...rial-goes.html
 
Old March 23rd, 2009 #103
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Default Figures for non-Irish gardaí

Just 18 gardaí from ethnic minorities have been recruited under a much-publicised drive since 2006 to attract foreign nationals into the force, it has emerged.

Charlie Flanagan, Fine Gael justice spokesman, said the number of foreign gardaí recruited to date was "extremely disappointing".

The 18 foreign gardaí are from China, Poland, US, Greece, South Africa and Denmark.

There has been a marginally better return in attracting ethnic minorities into the unpaid ranks of the garda reserve.

According to figures released in August, there were 15 non-Irish nationals in the standby force, comprising nine Chinese, a Dutch, a Romanian, a Greek, a Lithuanian, a Pole and a South African.

http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news...-up-to-gardai/

http://hailireland.blogspot.com/2009...sh-gardai.html
 
Old April 4th, 2009 #104
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Default Loyalist jailed for 30 years for gruesome murder

Sadistic killer Steven Brown was jailed for life today for the horrific double murder of two teenage friends.

The 28-year-old, also known as Steven Revels, was told he would serve a minimum of 30 years over the frenzied knife attack on Andrew Robb (19) and David McIlwaine (18) that shocked Northern Ireland.

The badly-mutilated bodies of the two teenagers were discovered on an isolated country road close to Tandragee, Co Armagh in February 2000.

They were found lying on the blood-spattered road with their throats cut and severe stab wounds to their stomachs.

Brown, from Castle Place, Castlecaulfield, was convicted of the barbaric attack at Belfast Crown Court last month.

Sentencing Brown today Mr Justice Gillen said that the murders were “among the most gruesome of the past 40 years”.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...-14257130.html

http://hailireland.blogspot.com/2009...years-for.html
 
Old April 6th, 2009 #105
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Default Foreigners targeted in clampdown on welfare cheats

THE Government is clamping down on social welfare claims from foreign nationals who travel in and out of Ireland to claim the dole.

Some 2,200 people have been investigated in eight areas of the country since early March, with 275 having their claims suspended at a saving of between €2m and €3m to the Exchequer.

Most of those investigated were in the 'high-risk' category of non-Irish nationals claiming a payment. In some cases, claimants were no longer resident in the country, or the money was being paid to an individual who was not a valid claimant.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...s-1699608.html

http://hailireland.blogspot.com/2009...mpdown-on.html
 
Old April 7th, 2009 #106
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Default Unemployment now at 11%

Another 20,000 people have signed on to the Live Register in March, bringing the seasonally adjusted total to 372,800.

According to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office, it is the biggest Live Register total on record, following an earlier record in February. Records began in 1965.

The CSO said the unemployment rate rose to 11% last month from 10.4% in February.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0401/liveregister.html

http://hailireland.blogspot.com/2009...now-at-11.html
 
Old April 15th, 2009 #107
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Default Tougher criteria for work permits

The Government has today announced it is to make it more difficult for foreign nationals to seek employment in Ireland by introducing revised legislation for work permits.

The changes, which are to come into effect from June 1st, will apply primarily to first-time entrants to the labour market.

Under the new arrangements, permits will not be granted for jobs paying under €30,000 per annum. Permits will also not be given for a number of professions including domestic workers and HGV drivers.

In addition, the length of time that employers have to advertise jobs will be increased and tougher conditions for the renewal of permits - including higher fees - will also apply.

A further change will see spouses and dependants of future work permit holders having to apply for permits in their own right.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...breaking33.htm

http://hailireland.blogspot.com/2009...k-permits.html
 
Old April 16th, 2009 #108
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Default Drop the Integration portfolio

At this very moment, it's certain that 21 junior ministers are not thinking about their constituents, their duties or the general state of the country, but are instead sweating over who may or may not lose their Minister of State portfolios.

By the end of April - horror of horrors - five or six of them will be without a fancy title... and we're meant to see this as the Taoiseach moving to make cuts at the top.

It's not a move that will set the world on fire, nor will it improve the national purse, or help struggling families. It is window dressing, and at worst, an opportunity for Cowen to reward/punish the loyal/disloyal. In fact, it will have as much impact on the recession as the profits derived from the sale of Brian Cowen's nude portrait, if it went under the hammer at Sotheby's.

But in the midst of all this naysaying, there is one good thing which could come out of this non-story: the removal of the "Minister for Integration Policy" portfolio from the Department of Justice.

Conor Lenihan, bless him, won't have to worry about getting another title. When the new, albeit reduced list of junior ministries is announced at the end of April, he'll surely get another post, given his connections. That is, after all, how the country works.

But removing his current brief would surely be a step in the right direction, following on from the demise of the NCCRI and the Equality Authority in the last budget. Like both of these quangos, Lenihan's Integration Ministry is redundant because for a process of integration to exist, you need a national agreement between two parties: a group of people who wish to be integrated, and a native community willing to receive them.

Outside of Dublin 4, no such agreement exists. The majority of Irish people are not only opposed to mass immigration, but they want the patterns of the past ten years reversed. On the other hand, you have a majority of immigrants who are not willing to integrate, and for various reasons - most are here purely for economic reasons, and do not intend to stay (the eastern Europeans); others are here to stay and work, while continuing to exist among their own ethnic groups in American-style ghettos; and there are others who intend to stay here not to integrate, but purely to cream off the faux generosity of bleeding-heart liberals, alongside the criminal element.

There has been no national debate on immigration, a debate so vitally necessary to determine whether the Irish people want "integration", or if they even want immigration in the first place. The Integration Ministry was created without that national debate, and is therefore not only irrelevant, but wholly unordained by the people who hold ownership of the Irish Republic. It is simply not needed anymore, nor was it ever needed.

Add also to Room 101 the Equality (part of John Moloney's brief) and Overseas Development (Michael Kitt) portfolios; but for Heaven's sake Mr. Cowen, if you must insist on keeping the European Affairs brief, please leave Dick Roche in this cushy number. There's the small matter of Lisbon II ahead of us, and us No campaigners could do with that bumbling idiot staying where he is, unless of course, you'd like to give Beverly Flynn a job...

Link: All junior ministers asked to resign by Taoiseach (and of course, they could only find a Green to pass comment)

http://theirishbulletin.blogspot.com...portfolio.html
 
Old April 20th, 2009 #109
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Default Recession blamed on drop in numbers of asylum-seekers

IRELAND'S precarious economic situation appears to be discouraging asylum-seekers from seeking refuge in this country, latest statistics have show.

Quarterly figures from the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner (ORAC) show 790 would-be refugees have arrived so far this year. Based on those figures, the total expected this year will be in the region of 3,160, a fall of more than 600 from the 3,807 who arrived last year.

The decline has been in the order of 22%, backing up claims made by former Minister for Justice Michael McDowell that many applicants were in fact "economic migrants".

http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news...f-asylum-seek/

http://hailireland.blogspot.com/2009...umbers-of.html
 
Old April 24th, 2009 #110
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Dissidents issue SF death threat

The deputy first minister has been told by the police that there is a threat to his life from dissident republicans.

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Old April 30th, 2009 #111
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Default 25 Nigerians deported

The 11 men, five women and nine children were removed from the country last night as part of an operation carried out in conjunction with Frontex - the European Union Border Management Agency.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/br...-14285076.html

http://hailireland.blogspot.com/2009...-deported.html
 
Old May 7th, 2009 #112
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Default Foreign names 'a hindrance to job-hunters'

Job-hunters with foreign names are twice as likely to be blackballed by potential employers than obviously Irish candidates, groundbreaking new research revealed today.

A study – the first of its kind in Ireland – showed employers were less inclined to give interviews to people from ethnic minorities even if they are as qualified as Irish candidates.

The joint report by think-tank the ESRI and the Equality Authority also found high-levels of discrimination here compared with other countries.Richard Fallon, Equality Authority’s acting chief, warned: “It does prove that a very old ghost of discrimination still haunts us.

“Moreover you’re twice as likely to encounter this spectre with a non-Irish surname than with an identifiably Irish one, that’s even with Irish citizenship and with Irish qualifications.

http://hailireland.blogspot.com/2009...b-hunters.html
 
Old May 9th, 2009 #113
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Old May 10th, 2009 #115
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The genepool is getting "dodgy" because it's all white, so they need to bring some Africans in. Unreal...
 
Old May 12th, 2009 #116
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Default 7000 asylum-seekers currently in the system cost €800 per week each

Currently, there are approximately 7,000 asylum-seekers at various stages of the application process in the system. Almost 5,000 are at first instance and appeal stage.

Fine Gael’s Denis Naughton said, despite improvements to the system, there was still a "significant backlog" and applications were taking a long time. He said a substantial part of the delay in processing asylum applications results from delays in processing leave to remain applications.

"While I accept they are complex, based on the current rate of processing, it would take approximately five years to clear the existing backlog of such applications. Is the minister of the view that this is unacceptable, particularly in light of the fact that €800 per week is spent on the court, accommodation, processing and deportation costs of each asylum applicant?"

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland...aim-91579.html

http://hailireland.blogspot.com/2009...00-asylum.html
 
Old May 14th, 2009 #117
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Default Nigerian fraudster gets suspended sentence

Olubuckolo Kilani (aged 41) of Hamlet Avenue, pleaded guilty to attempting make a gain or cause a loss by deception at the Credit Union on July 16, 2007.

The Nigerian mother-of-two has no previous convictions.Judge Martin Nolan said the details of the account were "murky" and he accepted that Kilani was making the withdrawal after being persuaded by "interested parties". He imposed a two-year suspended sentence.

Garda Alan Carroll told Mr Paul Greene BL, prosecuting, that the Swords Credit Union had placed an account under review after a suspicious lodgment had been made using a cheque altered from €3,500 to €35,000. They made attempts to contact the account holder but were unsuccessful.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/w...ce-410760.html

http://hailireland.blogspot.com/2009...suspended.html
 
Old May 15th, 2009 #118
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Default Libertas call to close borders sparks race row

A Libertas election candidate was last night accused of "playing the race card" after claiming Ireland's borders should be closed to stop any future influx of foreign nationals.

Raymond O'Malley, who is running in the European elections in the East constituency, said the borders should be closed to the 10 accession states as long as Ireland's high unemployment rate persists.

The Libertas candidate claimed over 29,000 PPS numbers were handed out to foreign nationals since January of this year.

"I think we've got to stop it. I think we have to look after our own people," Mr O'Malley said.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...w-1739889.html

http://hailireland.blogspot.com/2009...rs-sparks.html
 
Old May 28th, 2009 #120
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Default Cllr Liam Galvin: Unemployed eastern europeans should go home

ABBEYFEALE councillor Liam Galvin has called for unemployed Eastern Europeans claiming unemployment benefit to be sent home, stating that a week's social welfare money could cover their airfares.

Cllr Galvin also said that he believes that a considerable amount of fraud is also being committed through the wrongful claiming of entitlements on the part of foreign nationals.

"I am by no means racist, and I would like to help everyone, but I say that the time has come to take people aside and tell them that they had been very welcome here when the good times meant that work was plentiful," said Cllr Galvin.

http://www.limerickleader.ie/west-li...ern.5301781.jp

http://hailireland.blogspot.com/2009...d-eastern.html
 
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