Asylum crisis: Government at loggerheads amid fears protests will escalate 

Magowna House hotel in Inch, Co Clare, where locals are protesting the arrival of refugees by obstructing the roads to the hotel. Picture: Liam Burke/Press 22

As blockades remain in place at a Clare asylum centre for a third day, Government parties are now at loggerheads over how to deal with the mounting crisis in providing refugee accommodation.

Green Party and Fianna Fáil members clashed at Cabinet as ministers said they now fear that the number of protests will only escalate.