Features
The Dáil has agreed to mobilise an Irish Navy vessel in the Mediterranean as part of Operation Irini, whose main stated purpose is to uphold an arms embargo on Libya. But as Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin and Niamh Keady-Tabbal explain, Operation Irini is also part of the EU’s Fortress
Features
Horrific scenes at the Melilla border with Morocco cast a sharp light on how the EU works with other regimes to crack down on migrants. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin looks at the funding, training and support the EU provides in order manage migration. Last week in the Dáil, Paul Murphy TD
Ecosocialism
There is a streak of hypocrisy running through much of the condemnation of the British government for driving migrants trying to cross the English Channel back where they came from. How in terms of political morality does this differ from the migration policies of EU governments, including the Irish government?