The alleged assault of a child by an asylum seeker set off violent clashes between protesters and police in Dublin. It’s the latest incident amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment.

Violent clashes erupted outside the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, used for asylum seekers, on Tuesday night, October 21. A large mob hurled bricks, fireworks, and glass bottles at police, prompting officers to deploy pepper spray and water cannons to disperse the crowd.

EADaily, October 22nd, 2025. Mass protests have begun in Ireland after an African migrant was accused of raping a ten-year-old girl, RTE reports.

A massive riot erupted in Dublin’s Saggart district after allegations surfaced that a 10-year-old girl in state care was raped by a rejected asylum seeker from an African country. Thousands of furious residents gathered outside a migrant shelter near the former Citywest Hotel,

Ms McEvoy said the ICCL’s three key concerns were: the Bill’s provision for “expanded Garda powers”; risks the oversight mechanism for the border procedure would be “toothless”; and the inclusion of facial imagining data in the definition of biometric data.

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There are approximately 250 houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) providing accommodation for asylum seekers in Northern Ireland , Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has told MLAs.