Human Rights in Ireland welcomes this guest post from Dr Ciara Smyth. Ciara is a lecturer in the School of Law, NUI Galway and a member of the board of the Irish Refugee Council. The opinions expressed here are personal.
There have been four damning indictments of the Irish asylum system in as many months.
The first was a report by the Irish Refugee Council on the lives of asylum-seeking children in direct provision. Direct provision is the system of accommodation and subsistence provided to asylum seekers. Owing to delays in the asylum process, asylum seekers can live in direct provision for many years, or an entire childhood in the case of some children.
The Irish asylum system is in need of radical reform
Human Rights in Ireland welcomes this guest post from Dr Ciara Smyth. Ciara is a lecturer in the School of Law, NUI Galway and a member of...