Irish town says 'enough is enough' as hotels fill with asylum seekers

A resident looks as an oil-barrel drum fire burns during 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, December 9, 2023. REUTERS/Karen Cox

ROSSLARE HARBOUR, 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.