Some 50 tents pitched at Kildare Place on Thursday after men told to leave ‘cold weather’ beds in Citywest
International asylum seekers at the camp they set up next to Leinster House on Kildare Place in Dublin city centre after they were asked to leave International Protection Accommodation Services accommodation at Citywest in west Dublin. Photograph: Chris Maddaloni/The Irish Times
From about lunchtime they received offers of shelter in Crooksling in southwest Dublin and at River House in Newtownmountkennedy, Co Wicklow.
“They desperately want to get back into Citywest or anywhere out of the rain,” she told the garda with about 40 men gathered around them. “They are all desperately waiting on emails. What we want to know before we send them is where do they sleep?” One member of the force replied that they had to maintain security and a cordon because they were beside Government Buildings. The standoff continued, in heavy rain, until about lunchtime, with the garda reiterating his instruction that the men must leave the area and bring their tents, and the volunteers and men saying they had nowhere to go.
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