Men, including Palestinians, were left with one toilet between 100 on arrival in ‘bitterly cold’ Crooksling
Some of the homeless asylum seekers who left Mount Street on Saturday have returned to the makeshift camp in Dublin city centre. Photograph: Chris Maddaloni, described the site at Crooksling as “miserable” and “bitterly cold”. They said the one working toilet the site was “very dirty, very bad”. on Lower Mount Street where up to 200 homeless asylum seekers had been sleeping in tents until Saturday morning.
There was one toilet between more than 100 men, he said, and six more were “under repair”. Speaking to The Irish Times via text, the Palestinian said there was no working shower on Saturday but noted: “I heard in the morning that one had been activated but I have not seen it yet.” Though all tents left at the IPO were being cleared by Dublin City Council contracted cleaners by lunchtime on Sunday, more than 20 new tents were provided again by volunteers. Mark from Sri Lanka, who arrived in Ireland in mid-February, left Crooksling on Saturday.
“They told us: ‘We will prepare that toilet. But yesterday, no toilet, washroom, anything. I think better here,” he said standing at his new tent, pitched in his old spot. “There was no village there, no shop.” He said he walked an hour to the Luas to get back. Looking exhausted and dejected, he said: “I feel so sad.”
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