A Dublin-based homeless charity has received messages on social media threatening to burn one of their buildings down because they are providing homeless asylum seekers with tents.
The Light House homeless café and other charities have been asked by the International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) to provide international protection applicants without accommodation with the tents.
One person on X wrote that someone should put a Molotov cocktail through the door of the café, while another said: "Stop donating to traitor charities".
Tiglin charity CEO Aubrey McCarthy said some of the posts were very sinister.
"They were pictures of the Light House, videos of the people outside the Light House looking for help and then instructions on how to make a Molotov cocktail and [that] perhaps the Light House should be burned down this evening," he said.
"We're housing mainly Irish people and we had to move them last night because we did a risk assessment.
"They're at the front of the building and if you've a threat of a Molotov cocktail coming in the window you can't risk people getting hurt".
People queuing outside The Light House Cafe in Dublin city. Image: X/@carthy_aubreyMr McCarthy said they have been advised to provide tents by the Government.
"Then you're seeing that Tiglin or DCM is populating the streets with tents and it's ruining people's neighbourhoods: that's not Tiglin," he said.
"The Government have asked that a number of homeless agencies... give out tents to anybody who presents an IPO blue card.
"That's what we've been doing," he added.
Two tent encampments have been moved in the past week as more tents appeared on the Grand Canal in Dublin.
Over 100 tents were removed on Thursday with the homeless asylum seekers were relocated to other accommodation in locations including Crooksling and the former Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum.
However within 24 hours another encampment of almost 30 tents sprung up on the Grand Canal.
Integration Minister Roderic O'Gorman said a significant number of Ukrainian refugees are now leaving Ireland and that should free up accommodation for homeless asylum seekers.
He added that he is confident his department will be able accommodate homeless asylum seekers in the coming weeks.
