Clare Immigrant Support Defends Use Of Inch Hotel For Hosting International Protection Applicants

The Clare Immigrant Support Centre has defended the use of an Inch hotel as emergency accommodation for international protection applicants. A blockade consisting of a number of tractors and a car remains in place outside Magowna House Hotel where 34 men arrived by bus on Monday night and have since been accommodated in three bungalows on the site of the hotel. Locals have been vocal in their opposition to the international protection applicants staying in the hotel which hasn't been unused since 2019, citing the lack of consolation with the community about the arrangement. Clare Immigrant Support Centre manager Emer O'Connor says that while the accommodation isn't ideal, it is safer than alternatives which have been seen elsewhere in the country in recent weeks.