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Wexford County Council held a special meeting this afternoon to consider the Section 5 application submitted on behalf of the people of Rosslare regarding the proposed direct provision centre that was originally planned to be a nursing home.

The people of Rosslare Harbour had followed the rules, listened to the politicians, and allowed Wexford County Council (WCC) to enact the legal processes which, they hope, will eventually see a new nursing home developed on the site of the old Great Southern Hotel.

There are plans accommodate 170 males in the first phase and up to 400 people thereafter in the former hotel that was originally planned to be a nursing home.

Residents of Rosslare Harbour, Co Wexford, are planning on staging major protests in the coming days over plans to install a second IPAS (International Protection Accommodation Services) centre in the village.

The Department of Integration has confirmed that plans are in place to transform the old Great Southern Hotel building in Rosslare Harbour into accommodation for international protection applicants.

The Department of Integration has confirmed that the old Great Southern Hotel building in Rosslare Harbour is to be repurposed into accommodation for international protection applicants.

As Wexford prepares for another week of storms, another week of rain, and another week of potentially life-altering floods, Marie O’Gorman’s concern is not her own safety or wellbeing, it’s that she might be forced to leave the only place she has ever called home. Now 81-years-old, Marie has lived in Ballygeary, Kilrane her entire life, reared her children there, had hoped to see her days out there, but now that decision may be taken out of her hands by mother nature.

Women and children were lifted into a rubber dinghy and evacuated from their homes in The Haven in Rosslare Strand on Monday as floodwaters slowly made their way into more than 15 homes there.

More than a few councillors groaned as they flicked through the Chief Executive’s Report circulated before October’s meeting of Wexford County Council.

The committee were suited and booted for their latest meeting but, in the absence of flip-flops and Renault cars, they couldn’t pull the crowds