Pamela moved to Ireland with her husband in 2009. She has 3 sons, who are all grown up and stay in the USA. The couple lives in the beautiful Union Hall in West-Cork, far away from cities and therefore also far away from the rat race. Union hall is surprisingly cosmopolitan. Most of pmaela’s local […]
I received an email from one of my followers. He tells the story of exploitation he suffered while here in Ireland. Here is the email: I paid my employer 1,000 euro to secure my work permit, as I did with my previous employers in Ireland, this money was deducted from my wages. When I got […]
Tinyiko arrived in Ireland a year ago from South Africa. When Tinyiko arrived here it wasn’t easy for him. The cold weather came as a shock, he didn’t know anyone, he was homesick and became very ill as well. A lot has changed since then, and his perceptions have changed as well. First if all […]
Phindile is a young South African woman who arrived in Ireland in 2014. She is an asylum seeker. Phindile has a little son, aged nearly 2 who is the son of a non-South African man. He was rejected by her family because his father is not a South African native. Phindile feared xenophobia and decided […]
Before this interview I had never heard of reproductive abuse. But Ini told me her harrowing story. Ini comes from Nigeria. She met her husband at a very young age. ini was forced to come to Ireland by her husband. She was trafficked to Ireland while she was pregnant. Arriving here on her own, not […]
I saw mrs Shields, The Lord Mayor of Cork on several at the multi cultural evening, organised by Tony and Cordelia Oseh and at Africa day. I thought it would be a good idea to do a quick interview with her on her last days in the Lord Mayor’s office/ The Lord Mayor reflected on […]
Migrants in Ireland 