Human rights body expresses alarm at anti-migrant protests
Clare Locals protesting after refugees were housed in the Magowna House hotel, near Ennis. Picture: Eamonn Farrell /RollingNews.ie
Anti-immigrant groups with “sinister aims” are exploiting the lack of a permanent, stable system of accommodating and managing asylum seekers, the State’s human rights body has said.
And the longer the current crisis continues — with an expanding number of protests outside housing centres — the higher the risk of “long term divisions” in society.
