Your top stories on Tuesday: Cabinet to endorse return plan for migrants; family and friends mourn cyclist killed in Dublin

Cabinet to back UK return plan for migrants crossing from Northern Ireland

The Cabinet is expected to back emergency legislation on Tuesday to facilitate transfer to the United Kingdom of asylum seekers who have arrived through Northern Ireland – but British prime minister Rishi Sunak says the UK will not accept them.

Disagreements over asylum seekers have led to a diplomatic row between the two governments, while Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has come under pressure to explain her claim last week that more than 80 per cent of people applying for asylum in Ireland were coming from the UK over the land Border with Northern Ireland.

• Analysis: Does the data back up McEntee’s claim that 80% of asylum applicants arrive from North?: The claim last week by Helen McEntee that 80 per cent of those applying for asylum in the State were entering the Republic through the land Border with Northern Ireland has sparked a political spat with the British government. But is there data to back up her claim?

News

• Big increase in drivers caught using phones since new directive: A significant increase in the number of people caught breaking the law on the roads was a direct result of Garda members being ordered to give at least 30 minutes of every shift to roads policing, Road Safety Authority (RSA) chairwoman Liz O’Donnell has said.
• Dublin Airport parking selling out quickly for peak summer dates: Dublin Airport parking slots are booking out faster than in previous years as management struggles to find sufficient capacity in advance of the busy summer holiday season.
• ‘I just wish we had more time together’ - family and friends mourn cyclist killed in Dún Laoghaire: Greta Price-Martin, the 22-year-old cyclist who was killed in a traffic collision in Dún Laoghaire, has been remembered as “the kindest, gentlest” daughter and “a blessing” in the life of her friends and partner.
• ‘We need to find out what went wrong’: UK-wide Covid-19 inquiry to sit in Belfast: Legislation to ensure people are never restricted from visiting dying loved ones is needed, campaigners have said ahead of the first UK Covid-19 Inquiry sitting in Belfast.
• ‘Students are struggling in ways we haven’t seen before’: While Covid restrictions were lifted across schools in February 2022, the pandemic continued to loom large in the lives of students at St Joseph’s CBS in Nenagh, Co Tipperary.
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World

• Columbia University begins suspending pro-Palestine protesters after ultimatum ignored: Columbia University started suspending pro-Palestinian protesters early on Monday evening after they ignored an ultimatum to abandon their encampment or risk suspension.

The Big Read

• Twelve points to consider if your child seems to be academically or socially out of step: Ann Marie Lynch knows what it is like to be a teenager, embarrassed at messy handwriting and an inability to spell words, despite her best efforts and wanting to please teachers. After becoming a secondary teacher, she has also experienced trying to teach history and geography to teenagers who struggle to read and write. It prompted her to retrain to work in the area of additional educational needs.

Opinion

• Fintan O’Toole: Catastrophic decline of wild Irish salmon is another of the slow scandals of Irish life
• Zoe Lawlor: We cannot participate in an event that lets Israel ‘artwash’ its crimes

Business

• Ireland should have told ECB to ‘bugger off’ during bailout talks, Varoufakis says: Ireland should have told former European Central Bank (ECB) chief Jean-Claude Trichet to “bugger off” when he threatened to cut emergency funding to Irish banks unless the State accepted a bailout and a programme of austerity in 2010, Yanis Varoufakis says.

Sports

• Michael Murphy: Chaos of extra time becomes a trial by ordeal for teams who should have won in 70 minutes: Extra time brings chaos. I didn’t have a magic formula for dealing with it: no routine or superstition to follow in the dressingroom. Looking back, though, I can tell what decided those contests.

Life & Style

• Seán Moncrieff: What does the word ‘woke’ really mean?: The word “woke” is being thrown about a lot. Some elected representatives and future candidates are already in full-complaint mode about the excessive wokeness of our Government: which, as a linguistic phenomenon, is fascinating.

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• In the News Podcast - Explained: Why is there a row between Ireland and the UK over migration?

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