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For the north Tipperary town and others, the ability to attract migrants should be a source of pride and energy rather than fear and suspicion

USE ARROWS OR NEXT BUTTON TO SEE MORE PICTURES PROTESTERS marched their way through Roscrea, last Saturday to protest the housing of international protection ap...

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A truck driver pulled over to speak with the small group of protesters outside Racket Hall Hotel in Roscrea on Thursday morning. He handed them €50 towards their cause before leaving to the sound of loud beeps from other drivers who want to show their support.

THE people of Roscrea said the far-right figures who turned up there this week weren’t welcome as locals held a march about the closure of the town’s only hotel to be used instead to house asylum seekers.

Residents say they worry for their town but many demonstrators still resort to anti-migrant tropes

The state has bought a disused hotel in the Tipperary town as an olive branch to residents who had protested plans to house asylum seekers locally

Ireland has become ‘anti-any-more’ migration and this demands more than on-the-hoof responses from a struggling government

The lived experience of those newly arrived in the Tipperary town is generally very positive with a warm welcome felt

On the day I walk through Roscrea — the town of my father and generations before him and the place I spent my early childhood and was schooled up to my Leaving Cert — I hear the same view time and again.