Half of Irish population now want migrant checkpoints at the Northern Ireland ... trends now

Half of the Irish public now want migrant checkpoints at the border with Northern Ireland to slow the number of asylum seeker arrivals from Britain, a new poll has shown.

Fifty per cent of respondents told the Sunday Independent and Ireland Thinks they would support checkpoint measures to limit the number of asylum seekers arriving from Britain, with 82 per cent backing deportations back to the UK.

With tented communities continuing to grow in Dublin, as many as 40 per cent of poll respondents added that they would support Ireland having a policy similar to Britain's Rwanda scheme - with 42 per cent opposing the measures. 

The Irish public has reacted strongly to the increased migrations levels, with Dublin today playing host to a major protest against housing asylum seekers. 

Despite the growing concern over migration in Ireland, both Sinn Féin and the Irish government have said that imposing checkpoints on the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as a Rwanda-style deportation scheme, are out of the question. 

Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntree recently claimed 80 per cent of this year's estimated 7,000 asylum seekers had come from the UK via Northern Ireland, prompting the government to declare the UK was unsafe for migrants owing to the Rwanda plan and triggering a diplomatic spat.