I and the Village at The Bread and Roses Theatre | Review
May 28, 2021 Last updated:
May 28, 2021
I and the Village is set in the pre-pandemic world, exploring the long wait people have in what Ireland calls ‘direct provision’, the system used to house asylum seekers in the country. The production eschews politics of the parliamentary kind, and tries to put both sides of the story across – Hannah (Laide Sonola) expresses frustrations with the apparent improvements to direct provision in 2018, while Carl (Mark Rush) insists the revisions are an improvement on what went on before. I and The Village – Credit Ali Wright.
Tue, 04 May, 2021 - 16:59 I believe we were dispatched to the best community in Ireland : Izz Café celebrate two years in business
Eman and Izz of Izz Café are celebrating two years in business. Pic Vaughan Moore
Maeve Lee
Izzeddeen Akarajeh and his wife Eman are celebrating two years since the opening of Izz Café in what the couple described as “the best community in Ireland”.
Izzeddeen and Eman Akarajeh set up Izz Café at 14 George’s Quay after they came to Ireland with their four children seeking asylum.
In 2016, the family arrived in Ireland and applied for asylum which was granted to them after one year.
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1:20 PM April 23, 2021
The Loxford Park pavilion, which was at risk of being extended to accommodate a preschool, is no longer at threat after Redbridge Council postponed the consultation to relocate a Pupil Referral Unit (PRU).
- Credit: Loxford Gardeners
A park pavilion has been saved after a consultation to relocate a pupil referral service was postponed.
The Loxford Park pavilion was under threat over plans for a 100sq m extension to transfer the Loxford First Step Preschool there.
The extension was proposed in order to relocate the Constance Bridgeman Centre Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) to the Loxford Youth Centre, which currently houses the preschool.
Covid-19 compels us to end cruel, failed costly system for refugees to Ireland
Fr Paddy Byrne writes about what people face in Direct Provision and how the pandemic highlights its failings
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19 Apr 2021
Entering the Montague Hotel Emo Direct Provision Centre in 2017 were Msgr John Byrne, Fr Paddy Byrne, the then Senator John Whelan and the then Minister of State for Communities, Culture and Equality );
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Direct Provision has been a cruel and harsh system that has failed utterly in terms of how we as a country evaluate Asylum Seekers request to live among us.
Whilst regulation and assessment are important, a system that has left men, women and children restricted for up to 10 years in cases in a limbo situation is outrageous. The recent reports concerning Mother and Baby homes of the past has rightly evoked great anger, hurt and pain.
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