Minister Helen McEntee: No limit on the length of time rejected asylum seekers will be able to spend appealing their decisions under EU Pact on Asylum and Migration.

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Minister Helen McEntee: 80 per cent of asylum seekers are arriving from the UK.

Last week, I highlighted the case of a Palestinian man living in Jordan who said he arrived in Dublin to file an asylum application by first applying for a UK visa as a Jordanian citizen, flying into Luton and then over to Belfast. He said the visa prohibited him from filing an asylum application in the UK.

Footage captured in March showed a family of Africans arriving on O'Connell St in a taxi from the north who subsequently went to the IPO.

Also in March, the High Court ruled that Ireland's designation of the UK as a "safe third country" for returning asylum seekers is contrary to EU law. The new EU pact does not address this.

McEntee here mentions our common travel area with the UK but it doesn't apply to non-British citizens. Taxi drivers or anyone facilitating their transit from the north should face charges of migrant trafficking.

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In 2023, EU member states accepted 188 asylum seekers being returned from Ireland to their jurisdiction for the processing of their applications under the Dublin Agreement. The Dept of Justice returned three.

"Minister, does your department have any handle on what's happening in immigration in Ireland?"

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Justice Minister Helen McEntee says here that asylum seekers who mislead authorities with false documents will be subject to the EU pact's Border Procedure "if they come through the border".

Her remark suggests there's a category of asylum seeker who will be able to mislead authorities but won't be subject to the Border Procedure if they gain entry to Ireland in a particular manner.

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Garda Commissioner Drew Harris' willingness to make gardaí the target for the anger from communities against government policy is causing serious reputational damage to the force.

At 2am last night, gardaí were ordered to break up the protest in Newtownmountkennedy so that a number of trucks carrying equipment for setting up tented accommodation for asylum seekers could enter the River Lodge grounds.

The people are rightly furious.

This footage was captured by EU & local election candidate @PhilipDwyerMOI who's been livestreaming at the site all day. Irish citizens can support his election campaign on gofund.me.

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Pepper spray being used against the protesters in Newtownmountkennedy now and it's possibly the superstrength stuff Drew Harris ordered from Helen McEntee.

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Michael McNamara TD asked another good question during the joint committee on the EU pact on asylum and migration on Tuesday.

In 2023, of the 3,285 migrants who presented at Dublin Airport without a passport, zero were prosecuted.

After McNamara had asked why this was the case and it became embarrassing for the government, suddenly some migrants without travel documents started being prosecuted.

McNamara wondered how does that happen in a country where prosecutions are supposed to be completely independent of the political system?

Answers on a postcard to Garda Commissioner Drew Harris OBE...

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Tensions still escalating in Newtown.

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The Burkean is reporting live at the scene in Newtown.

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"There must be fifty riot police up in a little street in the middle of fucking Wicklow."

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Fire outside River Lodge caused extensive damage to the overhead wires.

"We speculate this is the main electricity source for the buildings. Fire brigade hadn't arrived as of 10pm."

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Footage from earlier this evening in Newtown captured by Gript's Fatima Gunning who was subsequently pepper sprayed despite identifying herself as a journalist according to Gript editor John McGuirk.

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A compilation of footage taken today showing the lead-up to tonight's commotion in Newtownmountkennedy.

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The moment the riot squad arrived in at River Lodge in Newtownmountkennedy this evening.

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Holding the line.

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The moment Gript reporter Fatima Gunning got pepper sprayed for objecting to a protester being batoned on the ground.

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It's a new plantation. It has to be reversed now so future generations don't suffer the consequences.

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