Street Circus! – New Horizon Athlone

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

Refugee Week

World Refugee week in Athlone runs from 18 to 23rd June 2022. New Horizon Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support and Friends would like to invite…

Gerry Callaghan 2022-06-03

Sunday Circus Extravaganza!

Join us on Sunday 19th June for the great

Gerry Callaghan 2022-05-22

NYCI and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission youth consultation event

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has a mandate to provide a separate independent report on how Ireland is doing. We know that racial…

Gerry Callaghan 2019-02-22

New Horizon meeting

Hello all, Hope you’re enjoying the recent change in the weather and the extra hour in the evening. It is planned to have the next…

Gerry Callaghan 2018-03-31

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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