Why is Ireland a destination of choice for asylum seekers?
Distinctions between lawful migration, temporary immigration and residence, and asylum seeking are real and important. EU citizens have a right under EU law to migrate to other member states to engage in employment and economic activity, but not simply for long-term residence by choice. Nationals of both Ireland and the UK have freedom of migration and residence. Ireland also accords limited […]
Our immigration challenges will not be solved by EU migration pact
Anyone who thinks that the issue of immigration is going to disappear politically and be eclipsed by other issues such as housing, climate change and taxation is, I regret to say, mistaken. The recent local and European Parliament elections seemed to demonstrate that there was no coherent groundswell of nativism and nationalism along the lines of the Reform party in Britain. There […]