Over 100 international protection applicants living in tents as temperatures drop
When international protection applicants living in tents in Clare heard that others in similar situation were being moved, Ali* said they were initially hopeful that they would soon be next.
This year, amid accommodation shortages, three tented facilities were opened to accommodate international protection applicantsIn mid-November, 40 people were moved out of a tent erected at Johnston Marina in Tralee in Co Kerry after spending more than 15 weeks there. When asked what it is like inside the tent, he said:"It's just too cold, you wouldn't want your worst enemy to live there, its kind of horrible.""When you try to go out and go to the bathroom at night, you have to walk a few meters [to get to it], and its freezing," Mikey said.
Aris* tells me that he spent two months in the Citywest transit hub where he slept on chairs and on the floor before he was moved to the tents in Clare.
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