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Hospital death shocks Dubin's Nigerians

Last update: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:58 | By: Catherine Reilly

Community mourns loss of expectant mother, 32 By Catherine Reilly DUBLIN’S ROTUNDA maternity hospital is believed to be investigating the death of a 32-year-old Nigerian woman who was under its care, Metro Éireann understands.

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Foodie James had the sauce to take Dragons’ €40K

Last update: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:58 | By: Simon Walsh

An entrepreneur from Trinidad stole the show recently when she secured a €40,000 investment for her Caribbean food business on RTÉ’s Dragons’ Den.

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Timor-Leste president gives thanks for Ireland’s efforts

Last update: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:57 | By: Rose Foley

Travelling to Parnell Square in a motorcade led by rows of uniformed gardaí, the president of the now-independent nation of Timor-Leste stopped last Monday to lay a wreath at the Garden of Remembrance.

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Night of music a great start to Europe’s week against racism

Last update: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:57 | © Metro Éireann

THREE-FLOORS OF music in central Dublin will kick off European Week Against Racism in Ireland with a bang and a beat.

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‘I don’t know what will happen to us’

Last update: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:56 | By: Simon Walsh

Filipino worker, family fear deportation after visa expiry By Simon Walsh A Filipino who has worked in Ireland for eight years fears that he and his family could face deportation after the expiration of his work visa.

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New report calls out Govt over diversity policy

Last update: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:55 | By: Catherine Reilly

POLITICIANS MAY wax lyrical on the ‘benefits of diversity’ and immigrants’ contribution to Irish society, but their policies sing to a vastly different tune, says a new publication.

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UN video contest on diversity

Last update: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:54 | © Metro Éireann

The United Nations is launching a new youth video contest to explore the themes of migration, diversity and identity.

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Migration policies ‘must treat women as equals’

Last update: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:54 | © Metro Éireann

Migration policies must offer equal opportunities to reduce women’s vulnerability to exploitation, said the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) ahead of International Women’s Day last Monday 8 March.

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I Go Dye no-shows Dublin comedy night

Last update: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:53 | © Metro Éireann

AFRICAN COMEDY fans in Dublin were left bitterly disappointed last weekend when a famous Nigerian funny-man failed to perform at a comedy event as billed.

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Nigerians join Dundalk’s St Patrick’s parade

Last update: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:53 | © Metro Éireann

NIGERIANS IN Dundalk are set to participate in the town’s St Patrick’s Day parade for the very first time.

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‘I like to challenge myself’

Last update: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:43 | By: Lucille Pestre

Suyi Guo – from Hubei province in central China – was already used to living away from home, having spent several years at university in Beijing, before she arrived in Ireland last September.

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Fingerprinting 'makes us feel like criminals'

Last update: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 10:56 | © Metro Éireann

IMMIGRANTS FEEL “like criminals” when renewing their immigration status, it has been claimed.

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Taking to the street for mother tongues

Last update: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 10:56 | By: Rose Foley

Nearly 50 Bangladeshis and Irish residents paraded down Dublin’s main thoroughfare recently to highlight the threat to native languages around the world.

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Concern at ‘negative feedback’ over Muslim students in Ireland

Last update: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 10:55 | By: Catherine Reilly

NEGATIVE REACTIONS to Muslim students in Ireland are increasing, according to the president of a major Islamic student group.

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Regulation of employment agencies ‘too little, too late’

Last update: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 10:55 | © Metro Éireann

MOVES TO regulate employment agencies represent “too little, too late”, according to Labour’s Joe Costello TD.

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‘Racism must be tackled’

Last update: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 10:54 | By: Chinedu Onyejelem

An African community leader has said the inability of the State to protect immigrants against racism is “ripping the country apart”.

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Parents ‘discouraged’ from speaking native languages with kids

Last update: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 10:54 | By: Catherine Reilly

SOME GPs and teachers are discouraging immigrant parents in Ireland from speaking their native languages to their children.

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Bilingual children have ‘a head start’

Last update: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 10:53 | By: Catherine Reilly

WHEN FRENCHWOMAN Isabelle O’Neill’s two sons were born, she bid them welcome in her native tongue. And subsequent trips through Irish supermarket aisles were also conducted en français, basic household items taking on a Gallic air.

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