Columb Barracks News Today

Official Ireland turned an effective blind eye to tents on Mount Street, says Simon Harris

A man in his 20s who had been residing at a Direct Provision Centre has appeared in court charged with assaulting a garda and smearing blood over the walls of a cell wall.

A man in his 20s who had been residing at a Direct Provision Centre in county Westmeath has appeared in court charged with assaulting a garda and smearing blood over the walls of a cell wall.

“A soldier, a boxer, a friend, but most of all a brave, courageous and incessantly loyal man  to his children and friends.” This was how Teresa McKevitt described her late father Danny McKevitt, at his funeral mass in The Cathedral of Christ the King, Mullingar, last Friday morning, 19 January.

Mullingar Mental Health Association organised a very uplifting Christmas Sing-Along in the Youth Work Ireland Midlands building at Columb Barracks in Mullingar on Friday 8 December for mental health service users in the locality.

The Journal spoke to a resident in one campsite who described conditions as inhumane.

A protest voicing opposition to refugees was held at the entrance to Columb Barracks on Thursday, 9 November.

Strict new rules mean that Ukrainian refugees who want to go home for Christmas or even travel within Ireland face losing their State-provided accommodation.

The grounds of the former Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum are set to be utilised as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers.

I think the hysteria surrounding the very idea of discussing the subject of Irish neutrality is both ridiculous and undemocratic.