Access Points – New Horizon Athlone

MOOCs and online courses generally can be accessed using simple computing equipment. Typical software and hardware requirements are:

Desktop or laptop
Android phone (Some courses)
Internet access
Modern web browser, Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox

Free internet access via WIFI is available in the following locations:

AIT canteen, library and open access area
Athlone Public Library
Anywhere WIFI available

You must abide by these regulations to have access to AIT computers and networks.

FAQ’s

We are a front line refugee support group mainly working on the Lissywollen Direct Provision site in Athlone. Our focus is on providing information and help to the 300 (on average) residents living there.

We also work on the Temple Direct Provision site in Horseleap, Moate.

Everyone in the DP sites in Athlone and Temple is what is described as a ‘Convention’ refugee. People who have arrived in Ireland under a United Nations resettlement program are known as ‘Programme’ refugees.

Convention refugees are people who have made their own way to Ireland and have applied for recognition of refugee status when they arrive.

Various official and unofficial routes and methods are used to travel to Ireland. These change continually, depending on weather conditions and enforcement levels at crossings.

On arrival people are normally housed for a few weeks in Baleskin, near Dublin airport. They are then dispersed to various direct provision centres around the country.

People can get protection if they meet the conditions set out in The United Nations Convention on Protection of Refugees.

See Definition of a Refugee