Adam Boulton: Spat over asylum seekers puts Anglo-Irish relations back into deep freeze

Blame the Brits. An unsanitary encampment of hundreds of tents sprang up in the heart of Dublin outside the International Protection Office where homeless immigrants can apply for asylum. Irish ministers pointed the finger at Rishi Sunak's Rwanda removal policy. The new taoiseach, Simon Harris, declared: 'This country will not in any way, shape or form provide a loophole for anybody else's migration challenges.

The immediate and highly visible crisis of the sprouting shanty town may have been removed but for both the Irish and British governments the challenges raised by increasing illegal migration are greater than ever. The Mount Street occupants were only ever a small fraction compared to the 1,400 or so asylum seekers being recorded in Ireland each month. There are claims the country is on course to take in a record 20,000 this year.

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