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This is where Remigration Ireland tracks what’s actually happening: court rulings, enforcement figures, IPAS decisions, and the news stories the rest of the press underplays. Numbers sourced. Cases named. No spin.

6 May 2026

1 in 5: Ireland’s Black Axe Casebook and the Deportation Gap That Won’t Close It

An Garda Síochána say €94m has been stolen and laundered through a single West African organised-crime structure operating in Ireland. Money laundering cases nationally have risen from 50 a year in 2017 to 2,768 last year. Here are the named convictions, and the policy question the Department of Justice keeps avoiding.

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