Protesters in Clare call on Taoiseach to apologise for remarks

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar suggested some people who live near asylum accommodation might  believe that 'brown men [are] a threat to women, and nothing could be further from the truth'. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Protestors in Co Clare who have been blockading a hotel which is to be used to house refugees have called on the Taoiseach to apologise for remarks he made, which they say have shown them in a bad light.

As tensions between the protestors and the Government escalated yesterday, the junior minister for integration Joe O'Brien travelled to the Magowna House Hotel in Inch, Co Clare, to meet with the locals who have protested the use of the facility to house refugees.