'They kept a really low profile. I feel sorry for them' — Migrants abandon camp after threats

'I’d be really surprised if anyone around here had anything to do with that,' one local resident said after the migrants quit the camp — apparently in the wake of a threatening protest on Saturday. Picture: Jack White

A makeshift campsite in a wooded area in Ashtown, Dublin, where homeless migrants had set up a camp, has been abandoned after a group of men threatened and attacked the inhabitants.

Just a five-minute walk from busy shops, restaurants, and cafes, the wooded area had come to be home to several migrant working men who could no longer afford rent.