{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/690b5df3317c91fd9a7765c9/6927603a44d46fbcb2987476?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Clondalkin attack likened to Mexican cartels, and IP applicants sleep rough to \"demonstrate homelessness\"","description":"<p>Around 20 male International Protection applicants slept rough on a wintry Tuesday <a href=\"https://irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2025/11/27/asylum-seekers-sleep-rough-in-freezing-temperatures-as-3500-refugee-beds-lie-empty/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">despite thousands of beds available</a>. Sources have told Kitty Holland officials want to them to “demonstrate homelessness” in order to prove their need.</p><p><br></p><p>Meanwhile <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/11/27/how-many-people-moved-to-ireland-last-year-and-how-many-were-asylum-seekers/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Leahy analyses</a> Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan’s claim that immigration is increasing at the fastest rate in the EU, and Ireland can’t cope.</p><p><br></p><p>The HSE tried to conceal the fact it was <a href=\"https://irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/11/27/hse-tried-to-conceal-ties-to-company-at-centre-of-forged-garda-vetting-controversy/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on the cusp of awarding a state contract</a> to the company at the centre of a false Garda vetting scandal. Jack Power reveals a review of Good People homecare’s dealings with Túsla, resulted in an employee being <a href=\"https://irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/11/27/review-into-falsified-garda-vetting-uncovered-serious-disclosure/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">prohibited from any further work with vulnerable children.</a></p><p><br></p><p>Monday’s drug-related attack on a woman in Clondalkin in Dublin was <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/11/26/woman-remains-in-serious-condition-following-fire-attack-at-house-in-clondalkin/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">akin to “cartel tactics,”</a> a Garda source has told Conor Gallagher.</p><p><br></p><p>And <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/11/26/woman-remains-in-serious-condition-following-fire-attack-at-house-in-clondalkin/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ukrainians on the streets of Kyiv</a> have told Eastern European correspondent Dan McLaughlin that Donald Trump’s “peace plan” with Russia is a “total betrayal.”</p>","author_name":"The Irish Times "}