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‘People are like machines for hiring’

Last update: Thursday, January 31, 2008, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 CATHERINE REILLY looks at the situation of migrants ‘employed’ by recruitment agencies 

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A friend indeed

Last update: Thursday, October 18, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Sandy Hazel speaks to some of the people involved in the Transition Support Project’s Big Brother Big Sister mentoring programme, which has proved to be a lifeline for many separated children seeking asylum in Ireland 

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A brief history of the Hawkings

Last update: Thursday, October 11, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Lucy Hawking talks about collaborating with her famous scientist father Stephen on their children’s book, George’s Secret Key To The Universe, and reveals how it brought them closer together, a year after his divorce from his second wife, Elaine. 

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Cultúr leading the way

Last update: Thursday, September 27, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Cultúr is a Meath-based migrants’ rights organisation providing English language tuition, information on employment – and even historical tours of the area. CATHERINE REILLY reports on a vital group that needs funding to go further 

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‘Ramadan Mubarak’

Last update: Thursday, September 20, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Sheikh Shaheed Satardien on the meaning of Ramadan and its importance to the Muslim communityThe use of fasting for spiritual cleansing and training has a very long history in all religions. It is a common institution of training and self-discipline amongst Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, and Muslims and of course Catholics (during Lent). In Ireland, the popular Lough Derg pilgrimage also involves intensive fasting and prayer. Fasting also happens to be common in Shamanism and many other tribal religions. So for thousands of years people have known that to willingly abstain from food and/or drink for a period of time can serve as a means of generating the self-control necessary to connect with the spiritual life. It is reported that even Jesus Christ is said to have fasted for 40 days and nights in the desert. We are told in the Quran: “O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you that you may learn self-restraint” (HQ2:V183).

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There’s something about Mary

Last update: Thursday, September 6, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Having returned from a seven-day pilgrimage to the famous Catholic shrine in Lourdes, Catherine Reilly wonders whether the town, and the pilgrims who converge on it, are selling themselves short 

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Life through a lens

Last update: Thursday, July 26, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Acclaimed black and white photographer Philip Pankov talks to SANDY HAZEL about capturing moments lost in timeAs a young teenager in Moscow, Philip Pankov was introduced to photography by a friend’s father. “I was invited to my friend’s house when his dad, who was a keen amateur photographer, was going to teach him how to print,” he explains. “At the time, families were living in standard conditions, usually a one-bedroom apartment in a high rise. So commandeering the bathroom for use as a darkroom was a big deal. It could be a two or three hour period and no-one could go to the loo while processing was happening.

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Flying high on health

Last update: Thursday, July 19, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Holidays are the last time you want to get sick, yet even the hardiest of passengers can get off the plane at their destination feeling sniffly, bent out of shape, or worse.Anything that puts a dent in your vacation fun is best avoided, and it only takes some simple measures to wave plane-related health complaints goodbye.

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In search of music

Last update: Thursday, July 12, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Sandy Hazel meets Karolien Verheyen, whose exhibition on the images and music of Cuba’s African-influenced Latin music scene is bringing a dose of excitement to Kerry Karolien Verheyen’s first exposure to Latin music was listening to her father’s Santana albums when she was eight years old. “They weren’t strictly Latin, but the influences were there,” she says.  

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What happens when a chameleon leads?

Last update: Thursday, July 5, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Nchedo Obi-Igweilo laments the corruption of his beloved Nigeria by rulers who seek to mislead the people, but finds some hope in the message of the late great Fela KutiIf you think the age of prophecy is over, well, you need to listen to Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Fela was one the most gifted Africans. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but chose to eat with his fingers. He was not putting on sandals or fasting in the wilderness like the prophets before him; to him these mortifications were nonsense.

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Parity, not charity

Last update: Thursday, May 24, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Tarig Misbah Yousif gives an account of his research into the integration of African Convention refugees into Irish society, and the problems and challenges they face 

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What became of the Chileans?

Last update: Thursday, May 17, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Twelve Chilean families who were fleeing the regime of General Augusto Pinochet were accepted into Ireland in 1974. Most returned to their native country following Pinochet’s departure in 1990, but a few stayed on. CATHERINE REILLY reports.

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The right to love

Last update: Thursday, May 10, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Dil Wickremasinghe explains how the Irish ‘céad míle fáilte’ is not the reality for gay love immigrants who wish to live here with their partners 

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The fight for water

Last update: Thursday, May 3, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Claudia Urquieta Chavarría and Miren-Maialen Samper on the struggle of ordinary Latin Americans to retain their fundamental right of access to clean water in the face of increasing privatisation, a topic discussed during Ireland’s recent Latin American Week 

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