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Taoiseach says St Patrick’s Day was not reason asylum seekers were moved

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Taoiseach says asylum seekers weren’t moved from camp due to St Patrick’s Day

The Taoiseach has said that the reason dozens of asylum seekers were moved from a makeshift camp in Dublin to a separate location was for health and safety reasons. Concerns have been raised after men who had been camping on Mount Street were moved ...

17 Mar 2024 at 08:15

Community

Fate of staff at Limerick Direct Provision Centre unknown after closure

A DIRECT Provision centre in Limerick with more than 60 asylum seekers and 12 staff has shut its doors this Wednesday morning, after a ‘vulture fund’ acquired the facility’s loans through Nama. Residents and staff at Westbourne Accomodation Centre ...

25 Jan 2017 at 09:49

National News

REVEALED: Migrant tent numbers increase overnight to 75 on Grand Canal, Dublin

Over 75 tents have been re-erected on the Grand Canal in Dublin less than a week after the migrant camp was dismantled at the location. The numbers of migrant tents are once again increasing steadily, as numbers have risen from 60 to 75 this ...

16 May 2024 at 09:46

National News

Gardaí call out 'fake news' over Racket Hall Hotel Roscrea as arrest man after clashes

Gardaí have confirmed that they have made an arrest at the Racket Hall Hotel in Roscrea, Co Tipperary, where locals are protesting the use of the building to accommodate asylum seekers. There were tense exchanges between gardaí and ...

15 Jan 2024 at 17:20

National News

WATCH: Clean-up underway on Dublin street after makeshift asylum seeker encampment removed

Authorities have commenced an operation to move asylum seekers who have been sleeping in tents on Mount Street in central Dublin, beside the city's International Protection Office. The Government said the asylum seekers had been ...

01 May 2024 at 12:39

National News

Lease withdrawn for Mayo hotel proposed to accommodate international protection applicants

A proposal to accommodate 50 male international protection applicants in a hotel in Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo has been scrapped. Local county councillors Damien Ryan and Michael Burke have stated that a lease between the Department ...

06 Jan 2024 at 15:48

National News

Protesters had been told house was not earmarked for asylum seekers, say gardai

Gardai said they told protesters outside a house in Co Kildare that it was not going to be used to house asylum seekers, but were not believed and the property was later set ablaze. The property in Leixlip was seriously ...

08 Feb 2024 at 17:20

National News

Integration minister responds to Roscrea protests over plans to house asylum seekers in hotel

Tensions continue to run high in Roscrea as protesters continue to gather in opposition of the government's decision to house 160 asylum seekers in Racket Hall Hotel. In an interview with Morning Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1 ...

16 Jan 2024 at 10:06

National News

O’Callaghan wants fewer than 10,000 asylum seekers per year

The Justice Minister has said he wants to see fewer than 10,000 asylum seekers entering Ireland per year. Jim O’Callaghan said the numbers of asylum seekers entering the country are currently “too high”, after more ...

23 Sept 2025 at 17:33

National News

'TWICE AS BAD' - Labour TD lashes out at Government 'PR stunt' as Mount Street situation worsens

Labour Party TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has recorded a video of the worsening makeshift asylum seeker campsite at Mount Street in Dublin, which he has said is "twice as bad" after the "PR stunt" to move residents around ...

28 Apr 2024 at 12:15

Sport

Pundits boycott Match Of The Day after Gary Lineker stood down by BBC

Alan Shearer and Ian Wright have announced they are boycotting Match Of The Day this weekend over the BBC’s decision to stand Gary Lineker down from the show. The corporation said on Friday that it had “decided” ...

10 Mar 2023 at 20:36

National News

Housing minister ‘disturbed’ by anti-migrant protests in Dublin suburb

Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien said he was “disturbed” by protests held outside a centre in a north Dublin suburb where migrants were being housed. Videos emerged on social media over the weekend of a crowd ...

09 Jan 2023 at 19:16

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