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Information Services

Citizens Information Centre (CIC)Augustine House,St Augustine Street,Galway.Tel: 091 563344Email: info@galwaycic.ieWeb www.galwaycic.ieOpeningHours: Mon-Fri 9.30-17.00 including lunchtime except Wed from 13.00-14.00.Free confidential information advice and advocacy service…

Refugee and Migrant Support Services

Some links to organisations working in the refugee and migrant support area: New Horizon Athlone (that’s us!) Irish Refugee Council Immigrant Council of Ireland Spirasi…

Government Agencies

International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) International Protection Accommodation Services, P.O. Box 11487, Dublin 2 International Protection Accommodation Services is charged with providing accommodation and associated…

Volunteering

Maintaining your Physical Health

Digital Stepping Stones

Visit https://www.digitalsteppingstones.ie/ to test out your digital skills and knowledge, and how well you understand your own abilities and limits online. You may surprise yourself,…

Maintaining your Mental Health

Many asylum seekers have been seriously affected by their experiences in their home country or while traveling to Ireland. Be aware of the dangers of…

Interview Result

The International Protection Office (IPO) interview will produce one of the following three results: The Refugee Legal Service (RLS) is a law centre established by…

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