A letter to the Editor – New Horizon Athlone

What do the Immigration Stamps mean?

See http://newhorizonathlone.org/wiki/ guide-to-rights-of-migrants-in-ireland

Gerry Callaghan 2020-03-01

Sea Prayer – Remembering Alan Kurdi

It’s now two years since 3-year-old Alan Kurdi was found drowned on a Turkish beach. Since then it is estimated that 8500 people have died…

Gerry Callaghan 2017-09-01

Walking with Poles and Men on the Move

Two great new fitness opportunities from Westmeath Sports Partnership and Athlone Regional Sports centre. Walking with Poles Outdoor Programme Walking with poles is a great…

Gerry Callaghan 2021-09-03

IMPORTANT NOTICE: COVID-19 restrictions from October 22

Update from the IPO: All substantive protection interviews are cancelled from Thursday 22 October 2020 until further notice. “Please find below a copy of…

Gerry Callaghan 2020-10-21

Online Learning Program

Dear Friends, At the start of the online learning project in September we found that there were two issues preventing people from starting them: People…

Gerry Callaghan 2017-12-07

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

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