The Taoiseach has unreservedly condemned violent attacks on a migrant camp in Dublin's inner city as 'malign opportunism'.
A Garda public order unit was called to the scene of a protest at Mount Street yesterday following several days of incidents - including a fire at a tented camp near Sandwith Street on Friday.
Leo Varadkar says Gardaí are investigating reports of attacks on a number of IPO applicants, sleeping rough in the city across the weekend.
Labour's Ivana Bacik's described the government's failure to house asylum seekers as 'outrageous' ..
Sinn Fein's housing spokesman Eoin O'Broin is calling the attacks 'racism - pure and simple' and Integration Minister, Roderic O'Gorman - says the situation is deplorable - adding that a significant number of beds should be coming on line in the coming weeks.
Today's Sunday Times reports Gardaí are on high alert for further violent protests by far right extremists - following what they perceive on social media as 'a success' in driving migrants from makeshift camps in the city this weekend.
