“Sometimes people have their application for refugee status refused, but they will be granted leave to remain”: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar admits that some migrants are allowed to stay in Ireland even after their asylum claim is rejected, even if “they’re not genuine refugees.” #gript
BEN SCALLAN: “Ireland’s political and media establishment are now having to answer questions that have never come up before about border security, and justify policies which went unchallenged for years. And it turns out they’re not very good at it.”
“If it’s not good enough for where the upper classes live, then it’s not good enough for East Wall”: Dublin locals react to asylum centre.
“[Irish people] have the right to be frustrated.”
WATCH: Gript interviewed an alleged asylum seeker in Kinnegad, who said he travelled to Ireland from Spain using a €4000 fake Bulgarian passport. #gript
Locals “really concerned.”
“When I came here, I thought I could start a new life.”
“Our children aren’t safe”: Kinnegad locals express concern over lack of vetting for asylum seekers in their town.
Max of 150 may arrive.
It is just another place, out there in commuterland, whose children will grow up, go to UCD, and then, perhaps, to Australia.
Louise Roseingrave talks to locals in Kinnegad after reported tensions arose when 150 asylum seekers were moved to the town without consultation
Women sexually harassed