A man who physically attacked and racially abused a Polish man and his friends as they waited to board a ferry to Ireland has been jailed for a year.Mark Chadwick, 30, from Holyhead, Anglesey, north Wales admitted racially aggravated threatening behaviour
A US senator has apologised for telling offensive ‘jokes’ about the Polish.
ONE THIRD of Ireland\'s Polish immigrants plan to leave within a year, a survey by recruitment firm CPL revealed last month.
YOUNG SOCCER stars from Lithuania will be among those participating in an international soccer tournament in Ireland next February.
There’s plenty of magic to occupy both young and old in Fighting Words - the creative writing centre that’s the brainchild of Roddy Doyle. Viktor Posudnevsky pays a visit.
Thailand and Cambodia have an unusual relationship. Cambodia’s years under the most destructive regime of modern times left it in the shadow of its more powerful, wealthier neighbour. But things were not always this way.
Courtesy of Amnesty International Men, women, children and infants are piled on mats in overcrowded cells. Food is strewn all over the kitchen and the toilets are overflowing. Children dig in rubbish bins. Yellow biohazard bags are piled high
So 2009 is upon us, as is Ireland’s new recessional reality. This year promises to be an extremely difficult one for those who have come to Ireland from abroad – for the obvious reason that job losses are affecting us all, Irish and immigrants together.
Your front-page story on the AkiDwA report findings on domestic violence as a culturally accepted form of discipline (African wives’ ‘witch-craft’ fears, 18 December) is dangerously misleading. The fact that domestic violence does occur in
So far, all the signs would seem to indicate that the first half of 2009 will be worse than the last quarter of the year just gone by. The world economy will be in turmoil for some time, with no obvious prospect that global business will recover just yet.
Here we present an edited version of Niall Crowley’s letter of resignation to Angela Kerins, chairperson of the Equality Authority
The national squad is now back into the swing of things. We had a training session two weekends ago in Alsaa, near Dublin Airport, and there were loads of new faces, which makes things exciting as places are up for grabs. The competition in trying to secure