The construction contractor tasked with building 84 modular homes for 328 foreigners next to a halting site in Clonmel has pulled out after the rental company providing their heavy machinery refused to supply any more.

Two of their excavators were burnt out on Thursday night. A portable security tower with cameras, which was subsequently brought to the site, has also been vandalized.

A 200-year-old tree on the site, targeted for removal and claimed by some to be a fairy tree, still stands. 🧚

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Workers have now left the site in Clonmel.

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100 tents cleared along the Grand Canal today but no busses to bring the migrants anywhere. Apparently 89 emails were sent out telling them where their alternative accommodation was.

There's now over one kilometer of fencing stretching from Grand Canal Street up to Lesson Street on both sides of the canal.

There had been one small patch along Wilton Terrace where the men had been camping but this will be fenced off now as a purely optics based solution as the govt was concerned about the impression the daily tent counts was having on on their key voting demographic.

But as the man taking this video recognises, with 400 asylum seekers continuing to arrive each week, the problem will only get worse until asylum seekers are physically removed from Ireland.

Ireland needs a Rwanda plan.

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Ballyogan is putting up a good resistance, managing to prevent four buses of asylum seekers and their belongings entering the grounds of the recycling centre for the last few hours.

300 Ukrainians had been staying at a council owned facility inside the grounds for the last two years but the intention is to now swap them out. This will become a common manoeuvre in the months ahead for other sites presently accommodating Ukrainians.

EU and local election candidate Philip Dwyer was down talking to some of the locals earlier.

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The buses have departed. Ballyogan stood firm, successfully holding off the push for now. Great to see community members of all ages coming out to help.

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Phil Sutcliffe speaks about the issues that motivated him to run in the local elections.

"It's spot-the-Irishman now in town. There are people who are actually afraid to come to the city centre ... If you go into O'Connell St today or even up to Parnell Square, it's like being in Africa."

Sutcliffe, who was Conor McGregor's childhood boxing coach, is running for both the Drimnagh-Ballyfermot and Kimmage-Rathmines wards on June 7th.

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Fire at St John's House in Tallaght last night at 10:50pm. The property is earmarked to accommodate 300 asylum seekers and was purchased for €8.1Million in 2019 by Kintrona.

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Taxis now being used to try to get the asylum seekers into the Ballyogan site.

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council earlier announced the recycling centre would be closed pending further notice.

Philip Dwyer has posted footage of a soft cap public order unit at the site so there seems to be an increased effort to get them asylum seekers into the facility today.

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The public order unit blocking protesters against asylum seekers being accommodated next to the Ballyogan recycling centre.

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Newtownmountkennedy community told that asylum seekers will be accommodated at Trudder House for five to ten years and the construction of modular homes will begin.

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Ballyogan: "This was a peaceful protest until the guards came."

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RTÉ not welcome at Ballyogan Says No.

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Ballyogan: Looks like the lad from Carlow who suffers migraines had his care dogs taken away. Don't know what happened to him. The garda putting his dogs in a van has an English accent. Wonder how common that is now that recruitment is being done by an UK firm.

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Jamaican rapper living in Ireland who posted a picture of a firearm on twitter urging migrants to protect themselves from "racist Irish people" confirms that he meant his post a threat.

"I'm not going to the guards because the guards don't do anything and the nation is going to cry tears, and for the person who asked me was that a threat, it's a threat to you if you come near me and my family, yes you will get a bullet through the head."

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