Asylum seekers removed from Dublin city streets ahead of St Patrick's Day

Tents stretch all around the International Protection Office in Dublin, as people await their applications to be processed. 

Asylum seekers who had been staying in tents on the streets of Dublin have been bussed to new accommodation 20km away from the city centre.

The dismantling of the 'tent city' has been slammed as an "irresponsible ploy by the government to remove the embarrassing spectacle of a refugee encampment" in the centre of Dublin on St Patrick's weekend.