A second bus load of young single male asylum seekers has arrived at the former ESB office block on East Wall Rd.

A local in East Wall gives a quick tour of the former ESB office which is being repurposed to house asylum seekers. Partitions can be seen being constructed.

"All brand new beds. Look what we're building for a load of Somalis. We're building little dorms for them. Can't believe the government is after doing this. Not even the Irish people are getting this. It's all Somalis coming over. Fucking scandalous."

Around 400 people have so far gathered outside the former ESB office in East Wall to protest the decision by Roderic O'Gorman to house young single male asylum seekers in the building. The road is blocked.

I'll be going live at East Wall at 2.30pm.
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HUGE CROWD IN EAST WALL

"We were protesting outside the Dáil, and you have People Before Profit shouting in our faces — "racist, racist, racist".

"There's two things in this world: ideology and practicality, and there is no practicality in this country. It's all theory, the whole lot of it. They want to save the universe before they save their own culture, and we're not going to put up with it...

"The UN migration pact was signed and we weren't even asked about it. They want the Irish people to lose their fighting spirit by tagging them as far-right and all this crap. It's all psychological warfare. Stand your ground!"

One of the speakers at the protest in East Wall today.

Malachy Steenson asks protestors to return on Monday at 5PM with twice as many people.

"Ensure that you bring not just yourselves, but your wives, your husbands, your children, your neighbours and everybody else. This meeting was called at very short notice and a massive crowd has turned out. We want twice that crowd on Monday evening."

Because a pampered state-funded hall monitor for neoliberalism and open borders is who really reflects the interests of the community in East Wall.

Come on down and speak to the people on Monday, Mark. Tell them your views.

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More migrants arrive mere minutes after the East Wall Protest ended, 19th November, Dublin.

"GET THEM OUT!": Footage of the East Wall Road Protest from today where locals gathered to address the housing of single military age economic migrants in this area.

Mere minutes after the protest ended, more migrants arrived and exchanged heated words with the locals, before entering the building.

Speakers included solicitor Malachy Steenson and former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Niall Ring.

The next meeting is there on the 21st November at 5pm.

The ESB's former office in East Wall is earmarked to accommodate up to 380 International Protection applicants according to Green Party Cllr Janet Horner. That means they'll likely be all non-Ukrainians as Ukrainians are given Temporary Protection status unless they request otherwise and the vast majority don't.

In a statement on her website today, Cllr Horner says 80 single men have been moved in so far but women and families are expected to move in at a later date. There are five floors in the building and families will be accommodated on different floors from singles accommodation. Catering will also will be segregated so the different occupants don't mix as are the toilet and showering facilities.

The building has Wifi for the asylum seekers and security cameras are fitted throughout the public walkways.

Gateway Integration LTD have the contract with the Dept of Equality to use the building to house asylum seekers. The contract is in place for one year initially.

There will be a compliment of cleaners on site per day, 1 duty manager on site daily, a senior manager on call 24/7, and security will be on site 24 hours a day too.

An integration fund is available to assist in linkages to local communities. Applicants may avail of English language classes through the ETB.

IPAS carry out resident clinics at all new and existing accommodation locations and work with a number of NGOs who provide support to residents in the form of clinics, and in addition there is a DCEDIY funded confidential NGO run helpline to assist with any queries a resident may have.

Cllr Horner says the building has a valid fire certificate but doesn't explain how International Protection applicants can be accommodated at a non-residential property without the Dept of Equality applying for planning permission.

Queries can be sent to ipasinbox@equality.gov.ie

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No bus pulled up in O'Connell street today to take these homeless people away to new heated living quarters in East Wall with wifi and full catering.

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Checking in on the revolutionary working-class movement.

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Dr Mary Ryan, a Consultant endocrinologist, has told TippFM that Ireland needs to stop taking in asylum seekers in order to provide adequate medical care to the current population.

One in two cancer cases are now getting delayed diagnoses and treatment. She said doctors have no more capacity with hospitals and GPs already calling for additional resources immediately.

She said many professionals hold the same view but are afraid to say it.

"We're already so far behind...I just don't agree with Micheál Martin when he says they need to keep coming. The services are already stretched and I can see it on the ground as a doctor."

She said everyone is going to get a consistently bad service unless we reduce the number of migrants. People in their 80s are already lying on trollies, and that's going to increase.

"People have to not be afraid to speak the truth in this country. For a long time they've been afraid to voice their opinion because we're being controlled, but that's not democracy."

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With one in two cancer cases now getting delayed diagnoses and trreatment, Ireland should accept no more asylum seekers until the current population has adequate health care. -Dr Mary Ryan.

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Spotted in Bray.

Tensions in Wicklow now at boiling point.

It's understood two men walked into the Grand Hotel in Wicklow Town just under a week ago and threatened to burn it to the ground.

Almost 300 asylum seekers are now being accommodated at the hotel – up from just over 100 six months ago. Some 191 are single men.

A number of families that were living there were moved to accommodation in other parts of the country to make room for them.

It's unknown how much extra hotelier Adrian Shannagher was paid to make the deal who says he's had a number of threats.

“People call to my family home you know? we’ve had all of that stuff. Calls in the middle of the night from private numbers.”

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Locals should not be entitled to consultation over asylum seekers being moved into their communities, hotelier Adrian Shannagher has said.

People in Wicklow have expressed outrage that nobody was consulted when asylum seeker families who had been staying at Shannaghan's Grand Hotel in Wicklow were moved out and replaced with single young men.

300 asylum seekers are now being accommodated at the hotel – up from just over 100 six months ago.

But Shannahan told Newstalk today that when locals are consulted about direct provision centres, the result is that those centres don't get opened:

"I often found that word consultation historically is designed to mean veto. People wanted to know so they could do something about it. People often say they want to be consulted but what they really want is a whole load of concerns addressed which may or may have any basis in foundation. With centres where pre-advance notice has been given to people, those centres haven't gone ahead."

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RT @Mullins77David: Nick Henderson, Chief Executive Officer of the Irish Refugee Council just told Brian Dobson on RTE that communities such as those in East Wall have "no right" to determine who is accommodated in their area. @IrishInquiry @IrexitFreedom @griptmedia https://twitter.com/Mullins77David/status/1594686595784998916/photo/1

There is no planning permission exemption allowing the authorities to house International Protection applicants in a commercial building. The exemption only applies to refugees accepted under the Temporary Protection directive.

Solicitor Malachy Steenson has now confirmed this with the authorities.

The contract that the Dept of Equality signed with Gateway Integration LTD is in breach of the Planning Act.

Asylum seekers cannot legally be accommodated at the former ESB office in East Wall. It needs to be shut down immediately.

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Livestream at the East Wall protest with @gearmurphy

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