Clare Immigrant Support Network News Today

The Clare Immigrant Support Network claims appropriate and timely community engagement is essential to successfully integrating Asylum Seekers. The government is rolling out new civic engagement teams this week which will aim to liaise with residents ahead of the arrival of International Protection Applicants. The state has faced intense scrutiny this year for their lack […]

The Clare Immigrant Support Network is describing the ongoing use of tented accommodation at Knockalisheen Direct Provision Centre as ‘inhumane & unsafe’. Figures made available in Dáil Eireann by Minister for Integration, Roderic O’Gorman show that 102 Asylum seekers are currently living at the Meelick facility. The use of tented shelter at the South-East Clare […]

A resident of a Clare Direct Provision Centre insists the Government must do more to encourage households to host and support refugees and asylum seekers. It comes as the cabinet sub-committee on Ukraine is meeting this afternoon to try to find solutions to the Ukrainian refugee crisis. A temporary accommodation unit will be opened tomorrow, […]

Today is World Refugee Day, an international day organised by the United Nations every year on the 20th of June. On Monday’s Morning Focus, Alan Morrissey was joined by Orla Ní Eili, Clare Immigrant Support Network and Aung Marma from Bangladesh. Aung Marma shared his story of arriving in Ireland and told Alan about the […]

The Co-ordinator of the Clare Immigrant Support Network believes the cost of applying to the regularisation scheme could be preventing some undocumented migrants from seeking legal status. The scheme was opened in January and allows undocumented persons to obtain Irish residence and access labour markets. Of the estimated almost 20,000 illegal migrants living here, only […]

Voluntary and community organisations in Clare says improved infrastructure in the county is needed to accommodate a growing number of Ukrainian refugees here. Integration Minister Roderic O’ Gorman is meeting with refugees in Lisdoonvarna today along with volunteers in the North Clare area. Clare Councillors heard at their monthly meeting this week that more than […]