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Metro Éireann : 15.07.11

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Deportees claim right to remain

22:23 | 15.07.11

Orders quashed, permission to remain granted for parents of Irish-born minors after EU court ruling

Dublin City Council spends â‚¬288K removing graffiti

22:22 | 15.07.11

Dublin City Council’s city management has revealed that more than €288 was spent on graffiti removal in the capital last year.

Refugee application numbers come down in 2010 says Orac

22:22 | 15.07.11

The number of people applying for refugee status in Ireland decreased substantially in 2010, according to the Office of the Refugee Applications Comm-issioner (Orac). Announcing the highlights of its 10th annual report, Refugee Applications Commissioner

US ambassador hosts a great American bash in the Phoenix Park

22:22 | 15.07.11

For most living in Ireland, the fourth of July holds no further significance than a date at the start of another summer month. Those with American connections, however, marked the day by celebrating the United States’ 235th year of independence from

Irregular migrants continue to be exploited says Fra report

22:21 | 15.07.11

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (Fra) has presented its latest report on the conditions of irregular migrants employed as domestic workers.

â€˜Thereâ€™s a difference in Irelandâ€™s national identityâ€™

22:20 | 15.07.11

Michaela Dwyer speaks to Killian Forde, new chief executive of the Integration Centre, about his goals for the organisation and his hopes for Ireland’s future

The language barrier

22:20 | 15.07.11

During one scene in Brian Friel’s Translations, now playing at the Abbey Theatre until 13 August, an Irish woman and English man attempt to communicate their affection for each other. The pair gaze steadily into each other’s eyes, uttering romantic

Photo exhibit tells story of sex traffic survivors

22:19 | 15.07.11

THE FRACTURED lives of women trafficked for prostitution are depicted through a new Dublin photographic exhibition.

Govt launches visa waiver pilot programme

22:18 | 15.07.11

A NEW SHORT-TERM visa waiver programme means that people from 16 countries – including China, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia - can travel visa-free to Ireland once they have a valid British visa.

34 missing in 2010 still unaccounted for

22:17 | 15.07.11

Thirty-four people who were reported missing to the Garda in 2010 are still unaccounted for, Metro Éireann has learned.

Nigerian arrested over drive test impersonations

22:17 | 15.07.11

A DUBLIN-BASED Nigerian man is to be charged with impersonating fellow Africans in order to sit their driving tests for a fee.

â€˜Focus on peopleâ€™ says UNâ€™s Ban as world pop reaches 7bn

22:17 | 15.07.11

The world’s seven billionth person will be born sometime this year – a birth that is “an opportunity to celebrate our common humanity and our diversity,” according to the secretary-general of the United Nations.

Letter from... Romania

22:16 | 15.07.11

The reality behind the exotic façade

22:16 | 15.07.11

Is cúis iontais é do chuid de mhuintir dheisceart na tíre go mbíonn trioblóid, foréigean agus doirteadh fola ó thuaidh ar lá áirithe amháin den bhliain, chuile bhliain. Some people

HÃ¶glund has a fresh take on the Irish language

22:15 | 15.07.11

Panu Petteri Höglund is a Finland-based translator and linguist who has been studying the Irish language from the comfort of his home country for nearly 16 years.

An cinÃochas ag dul chun cinn san Fhionlainn

22:14 | 15.07.11

Nuair a chuala an Fhionlainn críochthoradh an olltoghcháin san Aibreán, is iomaí duine ar bhain sé stangadh as, ach i ndiaidh an iomláin bhí súil againn leis. Ba é páirtí na bhfíor-Fhionlannach

Racism on the rise in Finland

22:14 | 15.07.11

When Finland heard the results of the parliamentary election in April, many people were shocked, but hardly surprised. The party of the True Finns advanced most, and in went several candidates who had been known as racist agitators for some time.

Charles Laffiteau\'s Bigger Picture

22:13 | 15.07.11

The big debate here in the States at the moment concern the raising of the debt ceiling. Many Americans, including some members of Congress, don’t really understand what this means. They’re under the mistaken belief that raising the debt ceiling

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