‘Safe for now’: Asylum seekers on how they’re seeking safety in Dublin after spate of attacks [Video]

A GROUP OF people seeking asylum in Ireland have been detailing their experiences since arriving in Dublin and explaining why they’ve decided to seek shelter inside a vacant house in the city.

The move, they believe, offers them the best prospect of safety following a spate of attacks on tented and other makeshift accommodation by anti-migrant groups.

The attacks – which have occurred at various locations around Dublin – have included beatings by armed groups wielding knives, iron bars and bricks.

This group has been supported in their efforts to find a place to stay by a group of housing activists. Both the men seeking asylum and the housing activists said they were aware of other locations across the city being used for the same purpose.

The men – most of whom were from the Middle East and said they were displaced by the war on Gaza – spoke to The Journal…