Minister booed as Oughterard rejects direct provision centre

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Up to 700 people attend public meeting where there was near unanimous opposition

One of the main organisers of the meeting, Patrick Curran, said time and again in the course of the night that if the politicians would not stop the centre, the people would.

Ms Connolly agreed that direct provision was wrong because it was inhumane but disagreed with some of the reasons given by people at the meeting. “Their lack of communication with people causes hatred and division towards people who have already fled persecution in their own country,” she said.

 

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