A High Court judge has refused to grant an emergency injunction to the residents of Dundrum village, Co Tipperary who want to stop asylum seekers being accommodated in a local hotel.
Mr Justice David Holland said no case had been made to grant an ex partie injunction where only one side is represented. He said the application simply did not have the necessary urgency.
Dundrum residents had lodged 230 affidavits with the High Court complaining that International Protection Applicants will be offered rooms at the Dundrum House Hotel resort from Thursday.
Mr Justice Holland, who read the affidavits and gave his judgment last night, said communities may not – as a legal right – vet or veto those who seek to live among them,
He said there was a “notable peculiarity” that the person who brought the case lived in Co Westmeath and he did not understand why Dundrum residents were not named as applicants in the proceedings.
He said concern was raised about the potential intrusion into…
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