Heavy Garda presence at International Protection Office on Mount Street on Wednesday morning
There are more than 200 tents in the streets and laneways surrounding the International Protection Office on Lower Mount Street in Dublin's city centre. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times
Asylum seekers are being moved from tents at the International Protection Office on Mount Street in Dublin’s city centre on Wednesday morning amid a heavy Garda presence. There are more than 200 tents in the streets and laneways surrounding the office, all occupied by male asylum seekers. The men are currently being woken up and are lined up to board buses. It is unclear what the destination of the buses is.
Speaking in the Dáil on Tuesday, Taoiseach Simon Harris said the street would be cleared of tents, and asylum seekers currently camped in the vicinity of the International Protection Office provided with safer and sanitary accommodation.Ammi Burke’s behaviour ‘utterly appalling and egregious’, says judgeThere was an earlier attempt to clear the site and transfer those staying in tents to a facility in Crooksling in Co Dublin.
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