{"id":148534,"date":"2025-10-27T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148534\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:45:08","slug":"protesters-let-off-pink-smoke-during-asylum-demonstration-at-citywest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148534\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters let off pink smoke during asylum demonstration at Citywest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A peaceful demonstration has taken place at a hotel housing asylum seekers in south-west Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>People gathered at Citywest Hotel in Saggart, holding banners in the colours of the Irish flag which read \u201cshe was 10\u201d, and let off pink smoke.<\/p>\n<p>The area saw disorder last week after an alleged sexual assault on a 10-year-old girl in the area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.resized.co\/breaking-news\/eyJkYXRhIjoie1widXJsXCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL2ltYWdlLmFzc2V0cy5wcmVzc2Fzc29jaWF0aW9uLmlvXFxcL3YyXFxcL2ltYWdlXFxcL3Byb2R1Y3Rpb25cXFwvMjBmZTU4M2ExYzMxMTNmMDhkMTdlMThhMjJmZjg1NzVZMjl1ZEdWdWRITmxZWEpqYUdGd2FTd3hOell4TmpjNE5EZ3hcXFwvMi44MjE3Nzc2Ny5qcGc_dz02NDBcIixcIndpZHRoXCI6XCI2NDBcIixcImhlaWdodFwiOlwiMzYwXCIsXCJkZWZhdWx0XCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL3d3dy5icmVha2luZ25ld3MuaWVcXFwvaVxcXC9ibi1ub2ltYWdlLnBuZ1wiLFwib3B0aW9uc1wiOntcIm91dHB1dFwiOlwiYXZpZlwiLFwicXVhbGl0eVwiOlwiNTVcIn19IiwiaGFzaCI6IjYxNjIyMDQ2Njk2ODg2MDk1M2YxODZiYTM4NzUyZjM1ZDMzNzBhN2IifQ==\/protesters-let-off-pink-smoke-during-asylum-demonstration-at-citywest.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"People protest outside the Citywest Hotel \" data-title=\"Migrant accommodation\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Niall Carson\" data-usage-terms=\"\"\/>People protest outside the Citywest Hotel (Niall Carson\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>A 26-year-old man, who cannot be named because of legal restrictions, appeared in court last Tuesday charged over the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Protests were held at the hotel for several evenings, with disorder breaking out on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters have carried Irish flags, chanted anti-immigration slogans, and thrown missiles.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday evening, there were peaceful scenes from 5pm in a pre-arranged women and children\u2019s protest.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed maintained a presence, and barriers had been erected.<\/p>\n<p>The protest finished with the singing of Crazy World by Aslan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A peaceful demonstration has taken place at a hotel housing asylum seekers in south-west Dublin. People gathered at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148535,"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-148534","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115448560190196512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148534","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=148534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}