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Protestors block Port Tunnel as East Wall refugee accommodation row rumbles on

Protestors have blocked traffic entering Dublin’s Port Tunnel as tensions over an asylum-seeker accommodation centre in East Wall continue to simmer. East Wall Road was closed in both directions between Alfie Byrne Road and East Road on Monday evening, with diversions in place. On Monday, Minister for Integration Roderic O’Gorman said that said the former ESB office block in Dublin will remain open as emergency accommodation for refugees.

The family of a young boy who was savagely attacked by a pit bull in Co Wexford have said “he will never be the same again”. Nine-year-old Alejandro Miszan was playing football with his friends on the green of the Old Forge Road estate in Enniscorthy on Sunday afternoon when he was set upon by the dog. He is currently in Crumlin children’s hospital in a serious condition.

A quarter of small landlords say they are likely to sell their rental properties in the next five years, an Oireachtas Committee will hear today. The Joint Committee on Housing will meet at 3pm to discuss recent trends in the private rental sector with representatives from the Residential Tenancies Board . The RTB provides information to tenants, landlords and the general public on their rights and obligations, in terms of both living and providing accommodation in the rental sector.

A team of scientists, led by experts from the School of Natural Sciences at University of Galway, have discovered an exceptionally well-preserved group of fossil sea urchins at Hook Head, County Wexford. The find is one of the most important in Irish palaeontology in recent times.nSea urchins, or echinoids, are a group of marine animals, related to starfish. They have globular plated bodies covered by numerous defensive spines, which fall away and are quickly lost after the urchin dies.

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East Wall residents' group block Dublin's Port Tunnel over asylum seeker accommodationEast Wall's residents' group have blocked Dublin's Port Tunnel as part of a protest over the housing of asylum seekers at an old ESB building in the area. That's not fair on those trying to get on a ferry Sure if it’s the residents doing this? Good for them. A blocked tunnel is better than a raped daughter.
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Dublin traffic chaos as East Wall protesters block Port TunnelThe protest caused huge delays in Dublin during Monday's rush hour
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