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Tougher sentences needed for racist crimes, says report

Last update: 07:49 | 01.01.09 | © Metro Éireann

JUDGES should be encouraged to impose tougher sentences on people who commit racially motivated crimes, a new report recommends.

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Filipino professionals ‘forced out’ of Irish jobs market - Ferris

Last update: 07:34 | 01.01.09 | © Metro Éireann

MIGRANT professionals made redundant are facing jobless futures in Ireland due to inflexible employment rules, the Philippines’ consul has said.According to John Ferris, a large proportion of civil engineers from the Philippines have been made redundant

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Romanian rep criticises Irish jobs restrictions

Last update: 09:45 | 25.12.08 | © Metro Éireann

Ireland's decision to uphold labour market restrictions on Romanian and Bulgarian nationals makes them 'second class' EU citizens, the head of the Romanian Community in Ireland has claimed. The Irish Government will review the restrictions by the end of 2011,

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New MRCI report exposes ‘flagrant’ abuse of restaurant workers

Last update: 15:16 | 18.12.08 | © Metro Éireann

HALF OF migrant restaurant workers don’t even earn the minimum wage and most never receive employment contracts, a shocking new study has revealed.

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A minority under siege?

Last update: 12:49 | 11.12.08 | © Metro Éireann

Controversies over the treatment of Belarusian Poles brought Poland and Belarus to the brink of severing diplomatic ties in 2005. CATHERINE REILLY visits Minsk and Grodno to gauge whether a possible warming in Belarusian-EU relations heralds hope for Belarus’s

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Platini blasts ‘trafficking’ of young soccer players

Last update: 04:11 | 04.12.08 | © Metro Éireann

SOCCER LEGEND Michel Platini has said that the recruitment of young boys from Africa and South America by top European clubs amounts to little more than “trafficking”.

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Bad press?

Last update: 03:40 | 04.12.08 | © Metro Éireann

Belarus’s president Alexander Lukashenko has been accused of crushing independent journalism since coming to power in 1994. Amid suggestions that his rule may loosen to facilitate economic ties with the EU, CATHERINE REILLY meets government and non-government

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In their own words - Belarusians in Ireland

Last update: 15:34 | 27.11.08 | © Metro Éireann

Belarus and its 10 million residents stand at a European crossroads, sharing a border with Russia and Ukraine to their northeast and south, and neighbouring the EU countries of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. But beyond Belarus’ global media

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‘I feel Irish - but Lithuania is home’

Last update: 11:13 | 02.10.08 | © Metro Éireann

Dublin-born Erica Jennings left Ireland as a teenager in the early 1990s, settling in Lithuania with her family. A fateful meeting in a Vilnius pub with Viktoras Diawara and

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‘We’re labelled as criminals, it’s devastating’, says NI Lithuanian rep

Last update: 12:25 | 01.05.08 | © Metro Éireann

Petras Šlajus of the Lithuanian Association NI told Metro Éireann that at a recent inter-community meeting in Dungannon,

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