Irish town has had enough with asylum seekers

Residents warming themselves with an oil-barrel drum fire as they hold a 24/7 protest around a building site, where an old hotel is being converted into an accommodation centre for refugees, in Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford, Ireland. — Reuters

ON a poster placed near three hotels filled with asylum seekers and Ukrainian refugees, the residents of the small Irish town of Rosslare Harbour have a blunt message for the government: “Enough is Enough”.

Their peaceful, carefully calibrated campaign against using a fourth hotel to house hundreds more asylum seekers could not be more different from that of the anti-immigrant activists who helped incite a riot in Dublin in late November.