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Over 850 non-EU parents get residency.

MORE THAN 850 non-EU parents of Irish-citizen children have been granted residency in Ireland since a landmark European court judgment last year, while six people who were previously deported have been granted visas to re-enter the State…

Minister presses Africa for UN seat – National News, Breaking News – Independent.ie.

Ireland’s minister for overseas aid is to lobby African government ministers for support for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC).  Joe Costello will this week attend the African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa as part of the drive to secure election to the influential body.

Asylum request rejections ‘too high’.

IRELAND’S LOW rate of acceptance of asylum applications largely explains the continuing drop in asylum seekers coming here in recent years, according to advocacy groups.Responding to figures which show asylum applications fell by one-third last year, the Irish Refugee Council and the Spiritan Asylum Service Initiative (Spirasi) called on Minister for Justice Alan Shatter to improve conditions for the 5,400 asylum seekers awaiting decisions.

The price of RTE’s catastrophic mistake.

EVEN BY THE sorry standards of recent history, the past fortnight has marked another low for the media. In London, public figures troop in each day to the Leveson inquiry into media practices, delivering shocking stories of indefensible intrusion by newspaper journalists. Last week, in the High Court in Dublin, two newspapers admitted that they had no evidence for reports they had carried about the death of the schoolboy Robert Holohan at the hands of Wayne O’Donoghue.

Dark days: behind the bailout.

IRELAND’S BAILOUT ONE YEAR ON: Over 10 weeks late last year, Irish and European officials engaged in a diplomatic dance of warnings, denials, negotiation and brinkmanship, before the November bailout by the EU and IMF. Here’s how it happened

Ending political cronyism.

TRADITIONAL FORMS of patronage can no longer be tolerated. They reflect unethical standards of behaviour that damage public confidence in the fairness of administration and the quality of our democracy. If the aspiration to create a new and inclusive society – articulated by President Michael D Higgins in his inaugural address – is to mean anything, then the old ways of doing business and rewarding political supporters must be consigned to the dustbin.

The two Irelands – Bondholders and charities | Irish Examiner.

Nigerian man and family win deportation challenge.

AN IRISH woman, her Nigerian husband and Irish-born daughter have won their High Court challenge to an order for his deportation made while the woman was pregnant with the child. The man had arrived here in March 2009 but his applications for asylum and subsidiary protection were rejected. In October 2010 an order was made for his deportation; he was arrested in January 2011 and deported about a month later.