Athlone-based Angolan woman buries parents, decades after they ‘disappeared’ BEATRIZ BAILUNDO sits in her living room in Athlone, Co Westmeath, tears streaming slowly down her face. “I waited over 30 years for this,” she says, as she watches the video playing on her TV screen.
The family of the Nigerian teenager who was shot dead in his rented accommodation in Dunboyne, Co Meath in the early hours of Friday 2 August, have spoken of their utter devastation at his death, and have criticised the authorities for the way they have handled the incident.
RITUAL abuse and gang rape have featured prominently in the experiences of young non-Irish callers to the CARI (Children at Risk in Ireland) helpline, according to the children’s organisation.
KENYAN woman Salome Mbugua, who was appointed to the board of the Equality Authority by Minister for Equality Sean Power TD last week, knows first-hand how inequality and prejudice can impact on someone’s life.
In a summer full of festivals, it is refreshing to find one that will cater for the family. One such event is the Meath Intercultural Family Festival, which aims to bring together families from all communities for a day of sport, fun, food and culture.
The four-year sentence slammed on a Nigerian-Irish lawyer for human trafficking has been broadly welcomed by members of the Nigerian community in Ireland.
Aidan Heavey, chief executive of Tullow Oil plc – one of the world’s fastest growing independent oil companies – recently held a two-day exclusive mentoring programme for the finalists of the 2007 permanent tsb Ethnic Entrepreneur of the Year Awards at the company’s London office.
MANAGEMENT at an asylum seeker centre in Cork are confiscating the personal fridges of residents, to be followed by their TV satellite dishes and children’s toys, as tensions rise at the Kinsale Road Accomm-odation Centre.
BRITISH SOLDIERS MOCK IRAQI CITIZENS ON THEIR BEBO SITESBRITISH soldiers from Northern Ireland currently serving in Iraq have been using the internet social networking service Bebo to display a host of shocking images in which they abuse Iraqi civilians and appear to mock the hanging of Saddam Hussein, Metro Eireann can exclusively reveal.
GARDA Commissioner Noel Conroy has cast doubt over the possibility of allowing Sikh recruits to wear specially adapted turbans.
BUREAUCRACY and a lack of cultural receptiveness among business chiefs are affecting the employment opportunities of highly qualified non-EU migrants, a Dublin-based Indian man has said.
INCREASING numbers of people are applying to change their name, a development attributed to Ireland’s growing immigrant population.
A SIKH man training to become a Garda Reservist was told to remove his turban by a high-ranking garda if he wanted to commence station duty, Metro Eireann has learned.
SANDY HAZEL is a keen observer at one of Minister for Integration Conor Leni-han’s first public engagements in his new post
It was brothers Alexis and Mikhail’s first day in Charleville. They arrived by bus that morning from the mythical country of Lovakia to find themselves at the Charleville Agricultural Show 2007.
DEPORTATIONS of unsuccessful asylum applicants and undocumented migrants have cost taxpayers over 3.5m euro in only two years, according to figures released to Metro Eireann by the Department of Justice. The overall figure includes the cost of chartering private aircraft, and the use of commercial aircraft and ferries.
Irish people need to value the contributions that immigrants are making in the society, the Ceann Comhairle has said.
The first Black person to become a mayor in Ireland has said that his election goes a long way to prove that this country has an open and welcoming society that gives everyone an opportunity to excel.