By Conor Brummell International Students for Change have submitted their petition to the Government, calling on them to better policies relating to healthcare, insurance and immigration status for students coming to Ireland for college. According to the petition, “International students have not been adequately considered in Ireland’s Covid-19 response” and that students who … [Read more...] about International Students for Change submit petition to better conditions for International Students to the Government
Immigration
Opinion: An end to free movement
By Gary Elbert “An end to free movement.” Those were the words of British Prime Minister Theresa May when her advisors were busily working on their Brexit draft deal, currently teetering on the brink of collapse in Westminster. A subsequent White Paper capping ‘low skilled immigrants’ from entering the United Kingdom is the Tory’s central hope in resisting … [Read more...] about Opinion: An end to free movement
“Are there really black people in Ireland?”
By Paraic A Fearon Recently, while sitting in my Jamaican grandmother’s kitchen, a question was posed to me that I have been asked periodically since I came to live here. Every time I am asked, I have more material to answer it. Sometimes I feel as if the country is ever evolving to prove my point. This question is “are there really black people in Ireland?” It brought me … [Read more...] about “Are there really black people in Ireland?”