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THE FOURTEEN MIGRANTS who were found in the back of a lorry that arrived in Rosslare are to be given legal aid to consider whether they can apply for asylum here.
Yesterday, 12 men and two women were found in the back of a lorry that arrived off a ferry in Rosslare Port. They were contained in a refrigerator trailer but are believed to be in good health.
The CEO of the Immigrant Council of Ireland Brian Killoran told Morning Ireland today that the information was scarce, but they could be eligible to apply for asylum here if they haven’t been registered in another EU country.
The 14 people are believed to be of Iranian, Afghani or Kurdish backgrounds, he said, and there was one child travelling with their parents.
What happens now?
“It is their right to seek protection of the state,” Killoran said. “They will be assigned a legal representative and look at their individual circumstances so generally it’s based on what their background is.
So if they’ve applied for asylum in another European country it can be the case that they are returned to that European country. If they haven’t been registered anywhere else it could be the case that they can register here in Ireland.
“Hopefully that will be the case that they can apply here in Ireland, that they don’t have to go through any further ordeal to be returned again, to Greece or to Italy for example.
We’re dealing with people who’ve come all the way from Afghanistan, all that distance: they’ve face a tremendous ordeal to get as far as they have.
He says that this incident was just one example of the “lack of a European response” to the migrant crisis that hasn’t relented in severity.
Ireland has accepted less than a quarter of the 4,000 refugees it committed to resettling under international relocation programmes since 2015.
Over the weekend Ireland accepted six teenagers who lived in the dismantled Calais Jungle in France.
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I really hope people respect ‘family private’ means what it says. This family have shared enough their time left with him. Hope they have the good sense to have someone at the door to refuse people just in case. Have seen it disrespected at much lesser known people’s funerals.
Paid my respects to Anthony and his family today. Shocking to see Anthony someone who was always so full of life and happiness lying so still in a casket.
The Journal in referring to Anthony Foley, as “Foley” seems rather disrespectful and bad mannered. I just don’t get how any journalist worth their salt could be so thoughtless
@Jane Waters: I’d guess because his friends called him Foley…..
The Journal aren’t friends of his. No right to call him Foley. He was Anthony. His friends called him Anthony.
@Sinead Hanley: His close friends called him Foley.
Ok Blake. Whatever you say.
With an ad for rugby jerseys inserted. Classy
Doug howlett = Andy Farrell there garreth
@Rachel Didleu: red thumbing has little or no affect on the cosmic law of the transmigration of the soul …..so relax red thumbers relax
@Rachel Didleu:Why don’t you transmigrate yourself as far away as your cosmic law allows,you complete as*h*le.
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