Today I joined a demonstration of over 100 parents of Irish-born children left stranded in the asylum process and living under the threat of deportation.

Two deportation flights have already departed this month, the product of inhumane and twisted immigration policies that flout the nation’s commitment to cherish all the children equally. Do these Irish children need their parents any less than any other child in this country?

We marched on the Dáil and the Department of Justice carrying a coffin to mourn the final passing of human rights in this land.

METRO ÉIREANN

A Serbian national who claims he has been bullied out of Trinity College by university authorities has appealed to the public for support.

Postgraduate student Aleks-andar Zejak, who came to study at TCD in 2007 after winning a prestigious scholarship from the Irish Research Council for Science and Engineering and Technology, told Metro Éireann that he would be forced to leave the country if the college fails to reinstate him, as well as resolve ongoing issues related to his tuition.

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