Mother slept with child (3) in McDonald’s after finding International Protection Office closed for Easter

Three homeless families, including six children under 13, presented at the International Protection Office on Friday and found it closed.

The first family said they had been helped by “a person” to travel to Belfast and told to make their way to the IPO in Dublin. The father, who became very distressed, said they had been travelling since Monday and had arrived at the IPO on Friday morning.The life of an Irish teenage rugby star cut short: ‘I pulled the sheet back and there he was in his kit’

At about 2pm on Friday, the families were standing under shelter from the rain outside the IPO as homeless male asylum seekers liaised with volunteer Olivia Headon, a student and former aid worker, by phone on how to advise the five parents. Ms Headon contacted Pearse Street gardaí who, she said, initially said they were not the appropriate authority to assist the families but then agreed they should make their way to the Garda station.

Mr Wardick said he was “shocked” there was no phone number for newly-arrived asylum seekers presenting outside office hours. Gardaí in Pearse Street were “very compassionate and sympathetic” but appeared unaware of any protocol for asylum-seeking families without accommodation presenting outside office hours.

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