Contractors servicing sites earmarked for refugees 'targeted online to stop work'

A bus moves asylum seekers from outside the International Protection Office on Mount Street last Wednesday. Online posts which urge pressure to be applied to those contracted to do such tasks have risen sharply in recent weeks. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

Contractors, bus companies, and taxi firms linked to sites earmarked for international protection applicants are being targeted on social media by anti-migrant groups in a bid to force them to withdraw their services.

Online posts by such groups, which urge pressure to be applied to both individual workers and companies, have risen sharply in recent weeks, but one travel company has been the victim of such posts for more than a year.