The only Irish person recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for saving Jewish children during the Holocaust.

'We're seeing so much trauma...we've seen lots of young children who no longer speak.' - Elena Lydon, a nurse from Mayo who's volunteering in Lesvos.

Currently around 1,800 unaccompanied minors on the island, people stuck there with interview dates in 2022, and services increasingly overwhelmed.

If you're able to donate, please use her paypal account: [email protected]

'We didn't want this conference to be any other conference, whereby we've got people theorising about other people's lives. We wanted the people that don't have the opportunity to narrate their own stories to be able to have that platform.' - Lucky Khambule, co-founder of MASI 

I chat to Lucky at the first MASI (Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland) conference in Liberty Hall, Dublin.

More info: https://www.masi.ie

Malak Bouod grew up in Benghazi, Libya and became involved in human rights activism in her teenage years. She moved to Ireland in 2014 and was granted refugee status in 2016. 

[Malak was interviewed by Sorcha Pollak as part of the New to the Parish series of articles in the Irish Times.]

A resident in Clonakilty Direct Provision Centre (The Lodge) explains why they felt the need to hold a protest in the Centre. (She preferred not to give her name). 

 Jessica Traynor reads Calais, and The Artane Boys’ Band from her collection, The Quick (Dedalus Press) – and we talk about the politics in her poetry. 

 Artist and activist Vukasin Nedeljkovic talks about his new book (Asylum Archive), Direct Provision, migration & deportation. 

Three women describe their experience of seeking asylum in Ireland; the threat of deportation, what it means to be Irish, and how they deal with racism.

Elsie Nwaora, Nomaxabiso Maye & Florence Eriamantoe talk openly about their years in Direct Provision.

Produced by Bairbre Flood with funding from the BAI (Broadcasting Authority of Ireland) - www.bairbreflood.org

Interviews with Muslims in Ireland - funded by the BAI, first broadcast on UCC98.3FM.

Home to 10,000 refugees before its eviction in 2016 – what was life like for people living in the unofficial refugee camp in Calais, France, aka The Jungle? (Funded by the Mary Raftery Journalism Fund.)