John Cusack, the manager of the Bridge Shopping Centre in Tullamore, prides himself on neutrality. “There’s a lot of anger about the way it was announced,” he says, standing in the middle of the busy shopping centre. As well as in the Marian, asylum seekers will be housed in three other properties located beside and across the road from the former hostel. “We don’t think that many will actually be housed there.”Tony McCormack, Tullamore town councillor. Back at the Bridge Shopping Centre, Cusack tends to agree.

Source: The Irish Times February 21, 2020 01:52 UTC