Rose Foley

23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism By Ha-Joon Chang (Allen Lane)

Last update: 22:12 | 15.07.11 | © Metro Éireann

This is a book that is about exactly what it says on the cover – 23 things they don’t tell you about capitalism – although the identity of ‘they’ remains unclear. Fox News, perhaps? Or CNN? The media and politicians in general?

Moldova restores Declaration of Independence

Last update: 12:47 | 20.05.10 | © Metro Éireann

By Domnica Lazar and Rose Foley

Encouraging Ireland’s migrants to take action

Last update: 12:47 | 20.05.10 | © Metro Éireann

Rose Foley speaks to Fiona Finn of Nasc, the Irish Immigrant Support Centre, about the group’s work for immigrants throughout the country

Asylum housing is ‘prison for people’

Last update: 13:06 | 13.05.10 | © Metro Éireann

Labour’s Costello calls for end to ‘direct provision’

Restaurant workers want action over exploitation

Last update: 13:55 | 06.05.10 | © Metro Éireann

As a waiter for more than six years at a restaurant outside Dublin, Oktay Gencoglu says he worked up to 60 hours a week – but didn’t receive overtime, nor was he compensated properly for working on Sundays.

Ireland makes new moves to ban FGM

Last update: 13:28 | 29.04.10 | © Metro Éireann

Irish lawmakers are taking action to ban the practise of female genital mutilation, making it a specific criminal offence.

Supporting social entrepreneurship

Last update: 11:34 | 22.04.10 | © Metro Éireann

In 2006, Mary Nally of the Third Age Foundation saw a growing need to teach English to migrants living in the Summerhill area of Co Meath. From that idea, the Fáilte Isteach project was born.

Minister responds to questions on safety in direct provision

Last update: 12:03 | 15.04.10 | © Metro Éireann

Direct provision centres housing asylum seekers have sufficient controls to address any threats to women or other vulnerable residents, according to Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern.

Fazaz is playing to win

Last update: 13:06 | 08.04.10 | © Metro Éireann

Rose Foley meets IT entrepreneur Ademola Fazaz, who’s branching out into new territory with his trivia game website Quiz2own.net

Sorry`s just not enough

Last update: 13:53 | 01.04.10 | © Metro Éireann

Call for global inquiry into Church abuses after Pope’s apology to Ireland

Probe into Nigerian asylum seeker’s death

Last update: 12:26 | 25.03.10 | © Metro Éireann

The head of Nigeria’s diaspora commission has demanded an investigation into the death last week of a Nigerian asylum seeker in Zürich.

‘It’s very personal work’

Last update: 12:03 | 18.03.10 | © Metro Éireann

Rose Foley meets one of a growing number of immigrants who provide home care in Ireland

New DVD highlights asylum seekers’ experiences

Last update: 11:52 | 18.03.10 | © Metro Éireann

A Serbian immigrant and former asylum seeker has made a DVD about the closing of the hostel for asylum seekers in Co Mayo.

Timor-Leste president gives thanks for Ireland’s efforts

Travelling to Parnell Square in a motorcade led by rows of uniformed gardaí, the president of the now-independent nation of Timor-Leste stopped last Monday to lay a wreath at the Garden of Remembrance.

Taking to the street for mother tongues

Nearly 50 Bangladeshis and Irish residents paraded down Dublin’s main thoroughfare recently to highlight the threat to native languages around the world.

Award winner hits all the right notes

When Nofe Liberty auditioned for musician Les Stapleton at Temple Bar’s Sound Training Centre a couple of years ago, she was asked what instrument she played.

Attoh opens eyes to child poverty abroad

Benedicta Attoh of Dundalk knows from personal experience the plight of young girls born into poverty.

‘Relationships are not a game’

Rose Foley speaks to Pastor Ajigbotoluwa A Lasis of the Adlife Academy, which helps couples build stronger, more meaningful relationships

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