{"id":136680,"date":"2025-10-21T19:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/136680\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:33:08","slug":"several-thousand-protest-outside-citywest-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/136680\/","title":{"rendered":"Several thousand protest outside Citywest Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several thousand people are protesting outside a centre for international protection applicants at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere is tense and angry with chants of &#8220;get them out&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A line of garda\u00ed is preventing the protesters getting to the centre and there are large numbers of garda\u00ed in public order gear.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Several thousand people are protesting outside a centre for international protection applicants at the Citywest Hotel in south county Dublin.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/00235a59-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nProtesters outside the Citywest Hotel this evening<\/p>\n<p>Pepper spray has been used by garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Fireworks are being directed at the garda lines.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed in public order equipment &#8211; shields and helmets &#8211; have pushed protesters back down to the gates and onto Garter Lane, which is closed to traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several thousand people are protesting outside a centre for international protection applicants at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-136680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}