A total of 114 people accommodated in the two centres had received refugee or subsidiary protection status, and had received notice to seek private accommodation outside of the centre.

Four hundred and fifty people in Cork International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) centres, and 5,300 nationally, have been granted permission to stay in Ireland, but have been unable to leave the centres due to a lack of alternative accommodation.

The comment by the Lord Mayor of Cork, Councillor Deirdre Forde, followed a tweet she posted on Sunday evening saying “Respect and inclusivity are a hallmark of Cork life, let’s make sure it continues to be so”.

Protesters intend to picket vacant buildings in Parnell Place on Saturday

“There’s enough wealth in this country to feed and clothe and house everybody, and the housing crisis was here for a long time before any refugee set foot on this soil." 

The Irish Times reported on Wednesday that Government briefing documents have warned the current accommodation system is “unsustainable”. 

Since April, Irish Red Cross volunteers have greeted incoming Ukraine refugees at Cork Airport and Ringaskiddy Port, providing them with a welcome pack, refreshments, confectionery, a meal, and transport arranged to Citywest in Dublin.

Some applicants of the regularisation of long-term undocumented migrant scheme have yet to receive a decision on whether or not they have been granted permission by the department to remain in the country.

Launching the charity’s Christmas appeal, Deputy CEO, Finola Finnan said that Lebanon remains at the forefront of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, hosting 1.5 million of the 6.6 million Syrians who have fled the conflict since 2011.

Irish Times journalist Sally Hayden's book was named An Post Book of the Year for 2022

Capacity has been reached and exceeded TD Cathal Crowe told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland.

It’s understood that earlier this month, two men walked into the Grand Hotel in Wicklow Town and threatened to burn it to the ground.

A spokesperson told The Echo that the department has contracted Páirc Uí Caoimh to accommodate people seeking international protection.

Six months ago, Samira Naderi and her husband Mohammed Hamed Naderi were in hiding in Afghanistan with their infant son Mohmmed Zahed Naderi. 

COMMUNITY Finance Ireland (CFI) has announced that it is to support a Cork-based NGO, Recruit Refugees Ireland (RRI).

"We believe the first step to successful inclusion is integration into the Irish jobs market for the refugee and asylum seeker community."

ASYLUM seekers in Cork are holding a protest tomorrow caling for refuge to be offered to those who have applied to remain and have been in situ in Ireland for the past five years.

SIX groups in Cork are undertaking a community sponsorship project, whereby they sponsor a refugee family to move to their town in Ireland.

IRELAND is to accept up to 2,900 refugees over the next four years under new plans unveiled today. The refugees will arrive in Ireland through a combination of resettlement and community sponsorship.

A neighbourhood group is hoping to welcome refugee family from Jordan or Lebanon to St Lukes’s in the coming months which they will be supporting and assisting in integrating into the local community.

A group of volunteers from Kinsale are banding together to welcome a refugee family arriving from Syria later on this year. Road to Kinsale is a Community Sponsorship project, which is an alternative resettlement model to Direct Provision.

A Cork nurse has hit out at governments across Europe for curtailing search and rescue efforts in the Mediterranean.

The Irish Red Cross has pledged €100,000 in support of migrant search and rescue activities in the Mediterranean.

THE migrant crisis might start to look very different if only we were able to connect the people willing to help with those in desperate need of it.