Roscrea protest: 'They're calling us bigots and Nazis but it's not fair'
Residents say they worry for their town but many demonstrators still resort to anti-migrant tropes
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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.