Irish Examiner view: State must engage with locals on asylum seekers

Asylum seekers leaving the grounds of the Magowna House hotel in Inch, Co Clare. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Locals have blockaded the approaches to the Magowna House Hotel in Clare, which has been earmarked for asylum seekers, but offering even the barest description of the situation is a challenge.

There is a constituency that will see locals expressing legitimate concerns about a lack of consultation from remote State bodies, bodies making decisions that have a significant impact on small communities.