School appeals 'unfair, unjust and cruel' decision to move refugee students

The Crowne Plaza Hotel has been home to between 350 - 400 refugees, but the temporary accommodation contract with the hotel is due to end soon. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

A large Dublin secondary school has appealed to Government ministers to help their ‘refugee’ students who have been told they have to leave their hotel accommodation.

The staff, students, and parents of Our Lady of Mercy College in Beaumont described the proposed relocation of the students from where they have been living, in the Crowne Plaza Hotel at Northwood in north Dublin, as “unfair, unjust and cruel”, and said they need and deserve stability and security.