Courtown has shown how accommodating asylum seekers can be a success by engaging and involving them in the community
A wave of vicious anti-migrant protests in Dublin and beyond, including arson attacks on property earmarked for asylum seekers, and an emerging far right have posed challenges for the Irish government in the past year.
In the seaside resort of Courtown, 100km (60 miles) south of Dublin, residents have shown there is another way, one full of humanity and support for people fleeing conflict or persecution.
Mikie (not quoted), from Nigeria, on Courtown beach in July
