Hundreds of asylum seekers moved from Dublin city centre to tented accommodation
Hundreds of asylum seekers who had been living in tents in Dublin have been moved to international protection facilities at the Citywest hotel and at a site at Crooksling in Co Dublin, the Government has said.
It comes after an operation was undertaken in the city centre to move hundreds of asylum seekers who had been sleeping in the large encampment of tents.
In recent months, migrants have been sleeping rough beside the city’s International Protection Office on Mount Street as the state struggles to source enough accommodation for people seeking asylum.
The operation to move the makeshift camp that began early on Wednesday morning comes amid increasing diplomatic after the Irish Government expressed concern about an upsurge of asylum seekers entering the state via the land border from Northern Ireland.
