Fury at Wicklow asylum centre meeting: Locals fear rape and crime threat (Ireland)

Fury at Wicklow asylum centre meeting: Locals fear rape and crime threat (Ireland)

Newstalk's Kieran Cuddihy heard locals in Wicklow were furious at the meeting over the new Direct Provision centre in the town which will house up to 100 asylum seekers from countries such as Pakistan, Nigeria and the Congo.

Many Wicklow residents spoke about a fear of the rape and crime threat the asylum seekers could potentially pose especially as so many young women pass by the hotel when they are out at the weekend and the fact that it is close to a school.

Newstalk Breakfast show host Kieran Cuddihy said it was unimaginable that refugees would flee possible genocide in Africa and then go onto commit crime in Wicklow town.

However, a 2014 report in the Irish Independent revealed that a Eritrean national who was granted refugee status in 2005 could not be deported home under EU and UN conventions as he was from a war-torn country despite being a violent rapist and receiving a seven year prison sentence for raping a 42 year old woman in St Stephen's Green, Dublin.

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