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Editorial: State must be more decisive in confronting the migrant issue

Commandeering vacant state-owned buildings is an obvious and long-overdue solution but tough decisions must be taken to avoid catastrophe

Dispersing the migrant camp that had appeared outside the International Protection Office in Lower Mount Street in Dublin was essential for sanitary and security reasons

The removal of the shanty town in central Dublin last week and the rehousing of the refugees elsewhere was not pretty but it was a necessary action in the public interest.

A hovel on a windswept mountain would have offered more suitable accommodation for desperate people than what appeared outside the International Protection Office in Lower Mount Street over the past few weeks.

Dispersing the migrant camp was essential for sanitary and security reasons. Its ...