Roscrea's asylum seekers 'don't want handouts, they want to work and integrate'

Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea is now home to 120 asylum seekers and tensions have been high in the town. Resident and centre manager Christine Murphy presents a different side to the story.

The Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Tipperary, is now home to 120 asylum seekers.

It is the former mother and baby home in Roscrea whose cold and cruel past was made infamous by the Oscar-nominated film Philomena.

Now the large Georgian building in Sean Ross Abbey is having a different kind of second act as it has become home to 120 asylum seekers.