Up to 3000 people in second march at Oughterard as opposition grows

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Thousands of people have joined a second silent march in Oughterard, Co Galway, as local opposition to a direct provision centre being imposed on the small town grows.

Organisers said that the turnout reached some 3000 people and that locals were opposed to the centres because they treated migrants and asylum seekers in an “inhumane” way. They also said that the Department of Justice had ignored the concerns of the community who had not been consulted on the issue, and who only learned that the centre was being prepared when builders started work on the Conemara Gateway Hotel which had been closed for years.

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