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Refugee accommodation

People gathered to protest against the moving of refugees into an old ESB building on East Wall Road, Dublin.

Protests recently in the East Wall area of Dublin were directed specifically at refugees who have been accommodated in a former ESB building in the area. As ever, there are issues involved which are specific to this case, but there are also resonances for the country as a whole.

A savage war being fought in eastern Europe has led to tens of thousands of refugees travelling to Ireland, and, as reported by this newspaper, there will be 70,000 Ukrainians in the country by the end of the year.