{"id":429334,"date":"2026-05-02T21:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429334\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:50:11","slug":"kerry-community-says-the-relocation-of-asylum-seekers-will-have-devastating-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429334\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry community says the relocation of asylum seekers will have \u2018devastating effects\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Community is demanding the Government halt the residents relocation\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cahersiveen town rally behind residents of the Skellig Star Accommodation Centre, formally known as the Skellig Star Hotel, in a bid to halt their relocation. Photo by Alan Landers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ff61f44b-b436-4f6f-9f56-541cf8d6f605.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Cahersiveen town rally behind residents of the Skellig Star Accommodation Centre, formally known as the Skellig Star Hotel, in a bid to halt their relocation. Photo by Alan Landers<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The community in Cahersiveen has vowed to do everything they can to stop the planned relocation of almost 200 asylum seekers from the town of Cahersiveen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The group of internaional protection applicants have been living in the Skellig Star Hotel for two years and from Syria, Nigeria, Somalia, Bangledesh and Palestine among other countries. They account for 20% of the population of approximately 1,000 people who live there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest\u00a0|\u00a0 Community is demanding the Government halt the residents relocation Cahersiveen town rally behind residents of the Skellig&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,4256],"class_list":["post-429334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sinead-kelleher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}