ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
UNHCR expresses its sincere gratitude to the Department of Justice officials for the relevant
information they provided in support of this research. We are also grateful to the legal representatives
consulted as part of this research who shared their valuable experience representing stateless
clients in the Irish protection system and related immigration processes. A particular thanks is also
extended to Catherine Cosgrave of the Immigrant Council of Ireland and the European Network on
Statelessness (ENS) focal point in Ireland, Karen Berkeley of Berkeley Solicitors, and lastly Seána
Carty, a former protection intern at UNHCR Ireland who assisted in the preparation of this research.
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