Coalition parties at loggerheads over ongoing refugee accommodation crisis

Gardaí with local residents as they blockade the asylum seeker accommodation at the Magowna House hotel in Inch, Co Clare. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

The Coalition parties are at loggerheads over how to deal with the mounting crisis in providing refugee accommodation.

The Irish Examiner understands tensions came to a head at the Cabinet meeting when Tánaiste Micheál Martin and Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien “pushed back” on Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman. The tension comes as protestors in Clare prepare for a third day of barricading a hotel accommodating refugees.