Former residents of makeshift migrant camp now suffering from trauma, says victim

The tented village on the banks of the river Tolka near Ashtown. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

A migrant man who was living in a makeshift campsite in Ashtown, Dublin, for two months until an attack by a group of Irish men has said the incident left him with severe psychological scars. 

On Saturday, January 28, a number of Irish men, with dogs and sticks, entered the makeshift camp in a wooded area of Ashtown and threatened the homeless migrants who were living there, allegedly assaulting two of them.