The Grand Canal, and particularly that stretch of it, is among the most beautiful parts of the city. To walk along it, especially at this time of year, can be quietly sublime.

Migrants have pitched dozens of tents along the banks of Dublin's Grand Canal just days after hundreds were evicted from a 'shanty town' in the city.

Around 55 tents are pitched on a section of the Grand Canal in Dublin, just days after almost 100 were cleared and barricades erected at another location beside the canal.

Another group of asylum seekers have pitched tents along the Grand Canal in Dublin. The tents have been set up in an area upstream from where another encampment was removed by Irish authorities ...