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Concern over plans to turn Drogheda's largest hotel into centre for asylum seekers

Concern over plans to turn Drogheda's largest hotel into centre for asylum seekers

Thu, 15 Feb, 2024

Local councillors in the Co Louth town will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss Government plans to convert the 113-bed D Hotel.

Engagement with communities needed to stop 'far-right influence on local representatives'

Engagement with communities needed to stop 'far-right influence on local representatives'

Sun, 28 Jan, 2024

Local representatives have been speaking out against immigration and Government policy in areas such as Roscrea, Co Tipperary, where there were protests over plans to house asylum seekers in a former hotel

Fianna Fáil councillors blame Government policies on Galway hotel fire

Fianna Fáil councillors blame Government policies on Galway hotel fire

Mon, 18 Dec, 2023

Seamus Walsh attended a protest at the hotel on Friday and gave an interview to RTÉ, in which he insisted that local people were "afraid of what they will encounter from now on with every sort of stranger in the area."