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Metro Éireann : 19.03.09

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‘It is not safe for them’

19:13 | 19.03.09

Islamic radicals forced him from his homeland, but Giasuddin Fazlu’s family may face a long wait before they can join him in Ireland. CATHERINE REILLY reports

Immigrants in politics will take ‘race card’ out of play, says FG’s Attoh

19:13 | 19.03.09

A NIGERIAN woman who has declared for Fine Gael says immigrants entering politics will flatten ‘race card’ opportunists, even within her own party.

Poland’s shock over RIRA attack

19:12 | 19.03.09

POLISH DIPLOMATS are on their way to visit the Polish pizza delivery man almost murdered during an RIRA attack on a British Army barracks in the North.

‘They are terrorising the neighbourhood’

19:12 | 19.03.09

Life is hell for families on a besieged Tallaght estate where thugs flout the law - and local immigrants are directly in the firing line. VIKTOR POSUDNEVSKY reports

Team expelled from league following pitch assault

19:11 | 19.03.09

A Dublin soccer team has been dismissed from a regional league after a member was accused of assaulting a Latvian player.

Charles Laffiteau\'s Bigger Picture

19:10 | 19.03.09

This week I want to try something different, taking the focus off US politics for a while and turning my sights towards a bigger picture, taking in America and Europe and the three ‘I’s – Immigration, Integration and Impregnation. Each

Two Europes on one map

19:10 | 19.03.09

Freedom of mobility is a right that not all Europeans enjoy, according to Karolina Szmagalska-Follis, a social anthropologist originally from Warsaw.She was one of the speakers during the Integration and Identities in Europe forum in Dublin last week.

A black-collar worker

19:09 | 19.03.09

Fr Seamus Finn was attracted to missionary work by the sense of adventure - but the experience attuned him to the need for ethical investment and social responsibility. Now an expert in the field, he tells Catherine Reilly how he helps companies and investors

‘Why are people so negative?’

19:09 | 19.03.09

Viktor Posudnevsky meets Anna Machowska, who has taken the recession as an opportunity to expand her English language school for immigrants

Prevention is better than cure

19:08 | 19.03.09

You and Your Money with Godfrey Chimbganda

‘We are not alone’

19:07 | 19.03.09

Ireland’s hotel sector has a majority immigrant workforce, a high proportion emanating from Poland. But as one Polish woman tells CATHERINE REILLY, getting one’s rights has been an uphill struggle that often requires strong trade unionism

‘A chance to change’

19:07 | 19.03.09

“It was really good because after that they gave her an apology letter,” recalls Beata.

Tekst Message

19:07 | 19.03.09

Ever since I saw the Gaelic football All-Ireland Final between Kerry and Mayo in 2006, I lost all interest in soccer. Even so, the announcement last year that Poland and Ukraine would be joint hosts of Euro 2012 made me feel proud for my nation.

Are Ireland’s immigrants living from a suitcase?

19:06 | 19.03.09

The first time I heard Leo Varadkar’s suggestion that immigrants could be ‘paid’ to leave Ireland, my immediate thought was that the Fine Gael TD does not fully appreciate that leaving is simply not an option for many immigrants.

Lithuanian craft shop brings a summery feel to the capital

19:05 | 19.03.09

Rūta Keršienė from Lith-uania jokes that she’s “half Irish already”, thanks to her eight years here.

Ambassador ‘surprised’ to learn of negative media coverage

19:05 | 19.03.09

LITHUANIA’S Ambassador has claimed she is unaware of the overwhelmingly negative media coverage of her compatriots in Ireland.

Comhdháil Dhomhanda in aghaidh an Chiníochais, mar dhea!

19:04 | 19.03.09

Tionóilfidh Comhdháil Dhomhanda in aghaidh an Chiníochais i nDurban arís i mbliana. Tá fadhb mhór ag baint leis an gcomhdháil seo dár liom.

Our Irish columnist Gearóid Ó Colmáin on the perpetuation of the Big Lie – and society’s inability to resist it, even when we know better...

19:04 | 19.03.09

‘Die Grosse Lüge’ – the Big Lie. That’s what Adolf Hitler called it. It’s even worth quoting his wretched book Mein Kampf to describe what it is – an untruth so colossal that the masses “would not believe that others

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