Detention under the spotlight – Issue 9 – Ireland

20 January 2026

AI Generated Image produced based on the story shared in the report.

JRS visits people in immigration detention across Europe. We witness detention’s negative impact on detainees and the effects of flawed migration systems. By exposing some of it, we hope to gain support in our call to end immigration detention. Stories are real. Names and other details were adapted for people’s protection.

For the ninth issue of this series, we focus the spotlight on Ireland, barriers to legal aid in immigration detention, and the story of V.