Asylum-seekers move tents to Ballsbridge after canal space fenced-off

by Odhran-J-McAnnick

10 comments
  1. Reading read stuff like this, and then stuff like the post from yesterday where the couple who were denied asylum are still here 5 years later and are suing the state for a right to work, and it really pisses me off.

    We have unmanageable numbers of asylum seekers applying every year and chancers who were denied asylum still years ago are still hanging around.

  2. Nearly the whole canal greenspace is fenced off now.

    It actually is an absolute disgrace what is going on.

  3. Dalkey is nice ~ ~ I’d camp in Dalkey myself ~ I love Dalkey.

  4. I wonder if this would be handled any differently in a non-election time.

    It really, truly does feel like a prime example of kicking a can down the road until you can say it’s someone else’s problem.

    We’re entering the only time of the year, those few blissful, heavenly fucking weeks, when the canal is end to end full, raking in what I’d imagine is thousands upon thousands a day for the local businesses around the area, entirely gone for both the owners and those who love a good canal pint, all for what? So you can pretend the problem doesn’t exist by slapping barriers in every potential tent location?

    Fucking unreal.

  5. Some tents on the Northside near the convention centre for weeks that everyone seems okay with, maybe as it’s not Ballsbridge.

  6. Just goes to show a section of them have preferences regarding where they want / don’t want to be. As opposed to trying to work with whatever they’re offered. Instead of migrating back into the city when they’re relocated somewhere.

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