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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.

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.

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.

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.

‘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”.

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.

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.

Ireland’s a better place for Chen

Last update: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 10:38 | By: Lucille Pestre

Peng Chen is from Nantong in Jiangsu province. The 21-year-old came to Ireland last year to study engineering at Trinity College.

Sikh blasts Garda ‘double standard on faith’

Last update: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 11:38 | By: Catherine Reilly

Use of Bible for Garda Oath in contrast with force’s ban on religious headwear By Catherine Reilly

Award winner hits all the right notes

Last update: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 11:37 | By: Rose Foley

When Nofe Liberty auditioned for musician Les Stapleton at Temple Bar’s Sound Training Centre a couple of years ago, she was asked what instrument she played.

What does it take to be Irish in Ireland?

Last update: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 11:36 | By: Catherine Reilly

‘Everyone can be Irish if they want,’ says a leading Government minister, but Ireland-based immigrants tell another story. CATHERINE REILLY reports

Chinese restaurant will return, owners assure

Last update: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 11:36 | © Metro Éireann

A WELL-KNOWN Dublin Chinese restaurant which fell victim to the recession hopes to “re-open in the near future”.

No continuous gas flaring in Uganda, says Tullow Oil

Last update: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 11:35 | © Metro Éireann

AN IRISH-FOUNDED oil company says it will not conduct “continuous gas flaring” in Uganda. The company reacted to comments from Labour MEP for Ireland East, Nessa Childers, who expressed concern that Tullow Oil’s production contract with the Ugandan government will permit “practically open-ended consent for the company to engage in the ‘flaring’ of natural gas which is not used in petroleum operations”.

Call to overturn deportation of Nigerian mother

Last update: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 11:35 | By: Catherine Reilly

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT officials are considering an application from a child’s court-appointed guardian to have his mother’s deportation overturned.

Visa approval rates for Asian visitors are high, says minister

VISA APPROVAL rates for visitors from India and China are high, Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has contended.

‘One-state solution’ is only way to peace says Israeli historian

Last update: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 11:34 | By: Chinedu Onyejelem

An Israeli historian has reiterated his call for a one-state solution as the only credible answer to the Israeli-Palestinian problem.

Muslims protest Norway newspaper cartoon

Last update: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 11:33 | By: Catherine Reilly

MUSLIMS HAVE handed a protest letter to the Norwegian Embassy in Dublin after a tabloid in Norway published a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad.

Recruitment drive for Ireland’s Rapid Response Corps

Minister of State for Overseas Development Peter Power TD last week launched a recruitment drive for the Irish Aid Rapid Response Corps (RRC). The RRC is a roster of skilled and experienced volunteers available to deploy at short notice to humanitarian emergencies anywhere in the world.

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