A Gript reader has sent us footage of what is claimed to be persons who have been moved from the tents close to the International Protection Office in Mount Street to the former St. Brigid’s nursing home at Crooksling, County Dublin.
Other reports confirm that this is the destination for at least some of those who were occupying the tents in Mount Street.
The footage was taken at around 6am this morning, shortly after the operation to clear the tented area in Dublin was nearing completion. Crooksling is where people who had previously been encamped at Mount Street were moved to at the beginning of March.
Activist NGO and far left groups then organised some of those who had been moved to return to Mount Street where the so-called “tent city” has been in place and continued to expand since.
Social media footage shows a fleet of taxis and buses which were present at Mount Street earlier on this morning as the people who had been staying in the tents waited to be moved.
“You do not have permission to stay in Mount Street” – this is the leaflet handed to the refugees this morning before being told to get on a bus. Some were happy to move, others angry. Spoke to a Moroccan and an Egyptian who arrived at Crooksling today. Both came via Belfast pic.twitter.com/1JLzaa3x7I
— Stephen Murphy (@SMurphyTV) May 1, 2024
Rumours had been circulating yesterday that Crooksling or Newtownmountkennedy was to be the destination for re-location.
Asylum applicants are being moved from tents at the International Protection Office on Mount Street in Dublin this morning after weeks of controversy around what was described as a “shanty town”.https://t.co/B5ctRtnC7G
— gript (@griptmedia) May 1, 2024
Local communities will now be anxiously watching to see where the men are moved to, as it is possible that the numbers involved will require that more than one site may be required.
The local community and business and working community around Mount Street meanwhile will be waiting to see whether NGO and left activists attempt as they did in March to move the relocated “residents” back as part of their ongoing agitation.