More than 30 tents pitched along Grand Canal with extra barriers erected on popular walkway

Over a dozen new tents were pitched on a stretch of the Grand Canal on Saturday as kilometres of barriers continued to be erected along the popular South Dublin walkway.

Accommodating asylum seekers: ‘Lurching from encampment crisis to encampment crisis is a gift to the far right’More construction workers needed to ease housing crisis, economic watchdog warns There are currently 1,715 asylum-seeking men awaiting an offer of accommodation, according to the latest International Protection Accommodation Services statistics.An average of 87 asylum seekers arrived in Ireland per day during the first week of May, up from an average of 57 per day during the last week of April. The vast majority of arrivals so far this month have come from Nigeria with smaller numbers arriving from Jordan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Zimbabwe.

They will also remain in groups because “they’ve just arrived in this country alone, they don’t feel safe and they want to be in a network”, she said.

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