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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

Ireland offering asylum seekers tents amid acute housing shortage

Tents outside Ireland’s International Protection Accommodation Service office in Dublin in the spring when a similar crisis unfolded.
Tents outside Ireland’s International Protection Accommodation Service office in Dublin in the spring when a similar crisis unfolded. Photograph: Rory Carroll/The Guardian

Ireland has run out of accommodation for asylum seekers and is offering tents, sleeping bags and extra money to new arrivals who face sleeping on the streets.

The International Protection Accommodation Service, a government agency, was unable to offer proper shelter to dozens of people this week amid a severe housing shortage.

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