Just days after Dublin City Council cleared the Mount Street ‘tent city’ that had surrounded the International Protection Office (IPO) for weeks, around 50 new tents have re-appeared just around the corner.
For months, Irish authorities have struggled to provide accommodation for significant numbers of asylum seekers entering the State, leading to hundreds of migrants becoming homeless upon arrival in the country. Many of these homeless male migrants subsequently chose to set up tents around the steps of the Irish Department of Justice’s IPO building, forming what observers described as a ‘shantytown’ or ‘tent city’, which had grown to contain over 200 tents by last week.
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