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Government Criticized for Detaining Deportees in Prisons - Human Rights Concerns
PRISON CAMPAIGNERS HAVE said the governments practice of detaining people for weeks before they are deported flies in the face of international human rights standards. Increasing numbers of asylum seekers are held in prisons as the government ramps up the number of deportations, partly to prevent them absconding before the flight, and also to pressure their family members into boarding the flight out of Ireland with them. But the Irish Penal Reform Trust has criticised this move, saying that it believes the measure is wrong because it sees people jailed for administrative reasons, not because they were a suspect or...
Romero Games Faces Closure After Xbox Pulls Funding: Devastating Fallout
"We deeply wish we could have done something to prevent this" by Sammy Barker Yesterday, 11:15pm Image: Push Square Update #2 [Fri 4th Jul 2025, 11:15pm]: The doors have closed on Galway-based Romero Games and over 100 staff are job-less after Xbox pulled funding on the studio’s latest game. That’s according to Irish publication The Journal, which matches previous reports on the topic. While the details are still murky, it’s believed that Microsoft subsidiary Bethesda was signed on to publish this brand new first-person shooter from legendary DOOM designer John Romero and his team. However, it pulled funding this week...
How Online Identifiers and Cookies Impact Your Web Experience
Cookies, device or similar online identifiers (e.g. login-based identifiers, randomly assigned identifiers, network based identifiers) together with other information (e.g. browser type and information, language, screen size, supported technologies etc.) can be stored or read on your device to recognise it each time it connects to an app or to a website, for one or several of the purposes presented here. With your acceptance, your precise location (within a radius of less than 500 metres) may be used in support of the purposes explained in this notice. With your acceptance, certain characteristics specific to your device might be requested and...
