The growing tensions over immigration in Ireland
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:05.0 | Today, tent clearances, violent riots and the UK's Rwanda policy. |
| 0:14.0 | Why is so many people in the city's harbour baths, |
| 0:34.4 | and dive into the Vikings' rich legacy. |
| 0:37.0 | Snack on Denmark's iconic open-faced sandwiches, Smoribro, |
| 0:41.0 | then whiz along the Baltic Sea cycle route, devour the natural beauty of the |
| 0:45.5 | Staven's clint, and immerse yourself in Denmark's rich landscapes. |
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| 0:54.2 | This message was paid for by Visit Denmark. It was very dramatic because as any visitor to Central Dublin would have known over the past year, |
| 1:11.0 | a tent city, kind of a refugee camp had sprung up along Mount Street which is |
| 1:15.8 | the outside of government office the International Protection Office right in the |
| 1:19.2 | heart of Dublin and there was a stream of tents down the pavement and then off adjacent |
| 1:24.8 | alleyways which at any given day it could be just maybe 10 or 20 or then up to 200 |
| 1:30.8 | tents of people who are waiting for their applications to be processed |
| 1:35.2 | and it become a political, visual eyesore and stain on the conscience of the city and the country. |
| 1:55.0 | Rory Carroll is the Guardian's Ireland Correa. on the and police decided to clear away the hundreds of tents where people seeking asylum had been sleeping. It had been their best option while they waited for |
| 2:00.9 | the government to process their claims |
| 2:03.2 | and provide them with proper shelter. |
| 2:09.6 | One morning, just before dawn, |
| 2:12.2 | the authorities moved in and they took down the tents and |
| 2:16.2 | herded almost all of the inhabitants onto coaches and bust them away. |
| 2:22.2 | A short while later the cranes came in and they basically removed all of the tents, the possessions, |
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