Up to 150 asylum seekers to be moved into apartments in Ballybofey

Up to 150 asylum seekers are to be moved into a block of apartments in Ballybofey, Co Donegal.

The Department of Immigration say contracts have been signed and families seeking international protection will move in in the coming weeks.

The forty-eight apartments had been laying derelict in Ballybofey for a number of years.

Donegal Deputy Thomas Pringle says it's a welcome development:

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