Department of Integration continues to ‘engage’ on plan to house asylum seekers in Mayo hotel

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The Department of Integration has said it will continue to engage on the potential of using a hotel in Co Mayo to house asylum seekers – a proposal that prompted a protest outside the premises.

The demonstration outside the former JJ Gannon’s Hotel on Main Street in the town of Ballinrobe began on Friday evening after it emerged that there were plans to accommodate 50 international protection applicants in the building from this coming Monday.