A total of 3,908 people were were refused entry at Irish ports, airports and the Northern Ireland Border in 2017, according to details released by the Garda press office. If a person is refused leave to land at an Irish port, the carrier is responsible for returning that person to their port of embarkation. She had travelled to Ireland to visit the Muller-Wieland family who she had worked for and had booked her return flight for September. She described her experience at Mountjoy as “the longest night of my life” and her case raised questions around the appropriateness of the policy of detention in prisons or Garda station cells. “Transaer House will accommodate a facility for the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) and a new Garda Station,” the statement said.

Source: The Irish Times September 09, 2018 07:52 UTC