Citywest protests: 'Violence results in more violence and it becomes a vicious cycle'

Gardai at the scene, near the Citywest Hotel. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

A major clean-up operation has taken place outside the Citywest Hotel asylum seeker centre in Dublin following large-scale riots in the area on Tuesday.

Large steel barriers have been erected outside the hotel where almost 300 gardaí were deployed after a protest descended into chaos.