Research
In-depth briefing papers on Irish immigration policy, EU migration law, enforcement data, and comparative international approaches. Each brief is sourced from primary government data, official EU publications, and named primary reporting.
An analysis of Ireland's decision to waive its 25-year treaty opt-out from EU migration law, the Denmark comparison, and the democratic and fiscal consequences of full participation in the EU Migration and Asylum Pact.
Read the brief →The International Protection Office already refuses roughly three-quarters of claims at first instance. The cost and delay live downstream — in the appeals tribunal (IPAT) and the High Court judicial review list. A stage-by-stage map of the pipeline and the point at which it breaks.
Read the brief →A sourced account of how Denmark cut asylum migration to a 40-year low while staying in the EU — the legal mechanisms, what worked, what was legislated but never used, and which parts Ireland’s post-2024 legal position now forecloses.
Read the brief →The EU’s “strictest-ever” migration measure, agreed 1 June 2026 — offshore return hubs, longer detention, mutual recognition of return decisions. What it contains, the criticism it has drawn, and the fresh Protocol 21 decision it now forces on Ireland.
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