The Republic of Ireland holds Europe’s record as the most “asylum seeker” unfriendly country, and sports a rejection rate of at least 90 percent, according to the European Union’s statistical agency, Eurostat. Of the total of 1,552 applications for asylum to the Office of Refugee Applications Commissioner (ORAC) in 2015, only 9.8 percent were granted leave to remain. According to Irish media, the government is also putting in “new systems” to make the “process of appeal more difficult for asylum seekers.” According to official figures, in the 12 months to the end of June this year, Ireland received less than 10 percent of asylum applicants to similar-sized EU states. Denmark, with a population of 5.4 million, accepted 21,000 asylum applicants; Norway, with a population of 5 million, accepted…