{"id":449711,"date":"2026-05-15T05:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449711\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:37:11","slug":"justice-minister-jim-ocallaghan-says-he-wants-to-reduce-number-of-people-seeking-asylum-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449711\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Minister Jim O\u2019Callaghan says he wants to reduce number of people seeking asylum in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Dublin Bay South TD also claims Bertie Ahern\u2019s remarks about \u2018Africans\u2019 were not racistOn Fianna F\u00e1il leadership: \u2018I don\u2019t want to be seen as somebody doing a Wes Streeting\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778823431_573_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Minister For Justice Jim O&#8217;Callaghan interview | Indo Politics<\/p>\n<p>Mary Regan and C\u00f3nal Thomas<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Justice Minister Jim O\u2019Callaghan has said he wants to reduce the number of migrants claiming asylum in Ireland and believes Irish reunification could happen \u201cquicker than we think\u201d as he set out his stall for the leadership of Fianna F\u00e1il.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In a wide-ranging interview with the Indo Politics podcast, the minister said there needed to be a \u201cmature discussion around migration\u201d and suggested people were at times nervous to talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin Bay South TD also claims Bertie Ahern\u2019s remarks about \u2018Africans\u2019 were not racistOn Fianna F\u00e1il leadership: \u2018I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[894,71077,9691,895,61,1629,60,18573,25081,1843,43,2443],"class_list":["post-449711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bertie-ahern","tag-conal-thomas","tag-department-of-justice","tag-fianna-fail","tag-ie","tag-immigration","tag-ireland","tag-jim-ocallaghan","tag-mary-regan","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-northern-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}