Some 37 tents pitched back around International Protection Office on Dublin’s Lower Mount Street, the location cleared of homeless asylum seekers over the weekend
St Brigids Home in Crooksling, Dublin, to where asylum seekers camping on Mount Street were moved over the weekend. Photograph: Arthur Carron/Collins PhotosAt around 4pm 37 tents could be counted in front of the offices and around Grattan Court and Grattan Street. There were also several newly arrived men who had no tents and hoped to get some from volunteers before nightfall.
The spokesman said the site had 15 toilets and six showers, with more being installed, and people at Crooksling will be moved to alternative accommodation as it becomes available. “Until then, they will remain listed as ‘awaiting offer of accommodation’ “. Homeless male asylum seekers who have been to the new Crooksling site, 20km away from Dublin, said it was “very cold”.
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