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Riot police standing guard outside the Racket Hall hotel in rural Tipperary are tetchy. The 40-room guest house in one of Ireland’s oldest market towns remains intact but recent history suggests that it could soon be reduced to a smouldering wreck.
Some 17 international protection applicants entered Racket Hall hotel on Monday amid scuffles between gardaí and protesters which saw one person arrested
More than 200 people are endured sub-zero temperatures and vowed to maintain their protest against the placement of up to 160 asylum-seekers in a Tipperary town’s only hotel.