Moate Bike Fest on Sunday

Gerry Callaghan 2017-09-08

Anyone want to come? It should be good fun for everyone.

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AIT wins Institute of the Year Award

Congratulations to our friends in Athlone Institute of Technology on an amazing achievement. AIT management, staff and students have been good friends and allies of…

Gerry Callaghan 2017-10-09

Want to Join the Circus?

Come have fun and learn new and different skills! Galway Community Circus, Gateway Youth Project, Foroige and New Horizon offer the Sunday Circus skills workshop.…

Gerry Callaghan 2022-01-23

Sunday Circus Extravaganza!

Join us on Sunday 19th June for the great

Gerry Callaghan 2022-05-22

Sanctuary Runners coming to the Midlands!!

Annemarie Sheehan from Sanctuary Runners Ireland is travelling from Cork to midlands this evening to launch Sanctuary Runners in Athlone tomorrow morning at the Park…

Gerry Callaghan 2023-06-30

Congratulations to the people who organised the St. Patrick’s Day parade entry. New Horizon was the winner in the Voluntary Category. The awards and presentation evening…

Gerry Callaghan 2018-04-11

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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