Up to 90% of Ireland's asylum seekers may have entered via Northern Ireland border

A knife attack by a Sudanese refugee in Belfast resulted in attempted murder charges and triggered two nights of communal violence.

Along the invisible line that divides Ireland from Northern Ireland, a decades-old freedom of movement has quietly become one of Europe's most significant migration corridors. Irish government data now suggests that nearly nine in ten asylum seekers entered the Republic not through airports or ports, but by walking across a border designed for citizens, not controlled for strangers. A knife attack in Belfast by a Sudanese refugee has brought this slow-building tension into sharp relief, forcing two governments to reckon with the gap between an open border's promise and its unintended consequen

Up to 90% of Ireland's asylum seekers may have entered via Northern Ireland border

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