Good insider piece by Czech journalist who worked undercover in a hotel in Ireland. Find out the abuse that lies behind your midweek hotel break.

If you look carefully you can sometimes see the stress and exhaustion in people's faces.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/19/ireland-hotel-cleaner-work-payslips-schedule

Undercover as a hotel cleaner in Ireland: ‘Lifting the heavy mattress, I cry tears of rage and exhaustion’

We struggle to secure payslips or a schedule – and in an 11-hour shift I barely have time for a bathroom break, says Czech journalist Saša Uhlová

The Guardian

Barriers alongside the Grand Canal in Portobello, to prevent people with nowhere else to go from pitching tents there.

#HostileArchitecture #GrandCanal #Portobello #Dublin #IrelandOfTheWelcomes #CéadMíleFáilte

If you don’t have a house, it is because of housing system starved of resources, not migrants fleeing persecution, dire economic conditions and just trying to build some sort of life here in Ireland #CeadMileFailte https://twitter.com/realmessageeire/status/1612153068971298816?s=61&t=aeeaz5l0HlTMLphz77nfQQ
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