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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.
The rumour says “most.” The State’s own count says 27.9% — not a majority, but more than double the non-Irish share of the population, and the non-EU cohort grew 29.3% in a single year while Irish demand fell. The real figures, by local authority, and the data the State still won’t publish.
AnalysisMinisters said the system is unsustainable. Here is what the numbers actually show, what they said in the Dáil, and how they voted when legislation came to the floor.
AnalysisCharter flights out of Cork Airport. Pre-dawn GNIB operations. Garda escort to the gate. The full operational chain — where it works and where it breaks down.
OperationsAustria elected a remigration government in September 2024. By January 2025 it had a dedicated returns infrastructure and €1,000 voluntary departure payments. A policy comparison.
Policy ComparisonIreland had a full treaty opt-out from EU migration law. Denmark has the same and used it. The Dáil voted to waive Ireland’s in June 2024 — no legal obligation existed. Six months later an Oireachtas committee recommended undoing it. The bill: €12.96m a year or 648 relocations. Ministers call this “EU obligations.”
AnalysisMasuma Sohrabi secured a court protection order against the man she feared. The IPAS system moved him to Co. Mayo. She was found dead in Clifden on 29 May. Incidents across the network have risen from 5 in 2021 to 5,725 in 2025. The system’s response, 544 times, has been a transfer.
InvestigationQayyum Balogun was killed by a man already before the courts for knife crime, who bragged in roadman dialect hours later and fled to Britain. Ireland has watched the UK’s knife crisis develop for a decade. The Henry Nowak case shows where institutional silence leads.
AnalysisA Wicklow holiday village under planning investigation kept its State contract. Ireland’s auditor found missing contracts, fire certs and planning evidence across half the IPAS portfolio. The public has polled for tighter controls. The system continues regardless.
InvestigationTwo teenage sisters and a passer-by attacked on Dame Street by a man with no recorded port of entry and prior knife offences on the books. Ireland can be humane without being naive. It can offer refuge without offering impunity. Compassion and deportation are not opposites.
Op-EdA 27-year-old Somali national with no recorded port of entry, described by gardaí at his bail hearing as a flight risk with a clear propensity to violence, has pleaded guilty to attacking two teenage twin sisters and a passer-by on Dame Street with a broken bottle. The criminal half of the file is closed. The civil half — how the State accounts for itself — has not yet been opened.
CommentAn 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.
InvestigationThe Department of Housing warned the Department of Justice about the homelessness risk before the letters went out. The letters went out anyway. What the IPAS exit pipeline says about Ireland's asylum system as a whole.
Analysis830 complaints in two and a half years. 83% of guide-dog owners reporting negative service experiences. A blind couple left on a taxi rank in December. The system is broken — and the law is already on the books.
CommentRecord orders. Record departures. And still a gap of more than 2,500 people that the State has signed orders for and not removed. The 2025 numbers, the reasons, and what they expose about enforcement as a policy choice.
DataRemigration explained: what it means, where it came from in European politics, and why Ireland needs to have this conversation now.
ExplainerEvery key immigration statistic for Ireland in one place. Asylum applications, deportation rates, housing lists, costs. All from official government sources.
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