3 h. ago Five due in court following disorder outside asylum seeker hotel in Dublin

Violence flared at the Citywest Hotel on Tuesday evening.

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3 h. ago Video: Protesters clash with police outside asylum seeker hotel in Dublin

New footage shows masked protestors launching projectiles, and a line of Garda holding riot shields, as a violent protest took place outside a Dublin hotel used to house asylum seekers.

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6 h. ago Dublin violence: Missiles hurled at police as ‘mob thuggery’ erupts outside asylum hotel

Six people were arrested as Irish police were attacked with missiles after violence flared outside a Dublin hotel used to house asylum seekers

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9 h. ago Dublin riots near asylum seeker hotel sees police van set on fire and officers hurt

Anti-immigration riots broke out near Citywest Hotel, which is in Saggart, County Dublin, and as a result several people - including a young girl - have suffered injuries

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13 h. ago Dublin police condemn ‘thuggery’ after protest outside hotel housing asylum seekers turns violent

Six arrests made after crowd hurled fireworks and other missiles at officers during protests following alleged sexual assault on a young girlSix people have been arrested after Irish police battled hundreds of protesters outside a Dublin hotel used to house asylum seekers after an alleged sexual assault on a young girl.The crowd burned a police vehicle and hurled fireworks and other missiles at officers outside the Citywest hotel on Tuesday night. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Moment Irish police van is set alight as riots break out near Dublin asylum seeker hotel 

Police officers were also attacked with missiles and fireworks as protesters gathered at the Citywest Hotel last night following the alleged assault of a 10-year-old girl.

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15 h. ago Irish police attacked with bottles as violence flares outside Dublin asylum hotel after alleged sexual assault

A Garda vehicle was also set on fire as a large crowd gathered at the Citywest Hotel on Tuesday evening

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24 h. ago Asylum seeker accused of murder tells jury he ‘never had a problem with anyone’

Deng Chol Majek claims he was at his hotel in Walsall when Rhiannon Whyte was attacked at a nearby railway station.

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39 h. ago 'Asylum seeker raped girl, 10, at migrant centre' as police launch investigation

The police were alerted to the scene on Monday morning and found the young child, who is understood to be in the care of Tusla, Ireland's Child and Family Agency

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44 h. ago Asylum seeker accused of killing hotel worker silent in police interview – court

Deng Chol Majek denies murdering Rhiannon Skye Whyte who was stabbed at a railway station in October last year.

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5 d. ago Asylum seeker seen drinking in car park after hotel worker’s murder, court told

Deng Majek is alleged to have been spotted chatting and listening to music outside Walsall’s Park Inn hotel after Rhiannon Skye Whyte was stabbed.

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6 d. ago Asylum seeker was ‘staring spookily’ at hotel worker on day of fatal stabbing

Witnesses said Deng Chol Majek intimidated three female staff members and appeared to be ‘planning something’ at Walsall’s Park Inn hotel.

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1 week ago ‘I absolutely went for it!’: Michael Flatley on sex, swagger, Riverdance – and tapping his feet 35 times a second

The Lord of the Dance was always fanatically driven, practising for sixteen hours a day in his teens. His body now bears the damage of that era. But he still wants more. He discusses love, passion, pride and performing for Donald TrumpMichael Flatley’s feet used to move so fast, they tapped 35 times a second and required a £25m insurance policy on his legs. He hasn’t danced for nearly 10 years – not even in his own quiet way any more, he says – but the “feet of flames” that bewitched 60 million over more than four decades must now be in one hell of a state.We are sitting at a table in the emptied breakfast room of the InterContinental hotel in Dublin when Flatley whips his right foot out on to the seat beside me: size eight, small and sockless in unflashy black sneakers. If my feet had put me on the Sunday Times Rich List, I say, I’d dress them in silk socks and stroke them each night to thank them. “Well, listen,” he says. “I don’t really give any of that any thought. To be honest,...

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2 w. ago Syrian asylum seeker who stabbed two people while on the run from police is jailed for nine years

Abdul-Rahman Al-Ahmed, 21, chased his first victim through a town centre in broad daylight before stabbing him several times.

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