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Dan Grennan

Protests against 'unvetted men' forces boxing club to cancel training

A popular boxing club has been forced to cancel multiple training sessions due to demonstrations against "unvetted men".

Protestors have been gathering outside the Aughrim Street Sports Centre in Smithfield for the past number of days. They are protesting the community centre alleged being used to house refugees.

Smithfield Boxing Club told their members that training has been cancelled since Tuesday "as a direct result of protests". They added it was "not being cancelled because of any other use to which our building is put".

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The Facebook post read: "Training has been cancelled since Tuesday as a direct result of protests being staged outside our clubhouse. Training has NOT been cancelled because of any other use to which our building is put.

"SBC is a multi-cultural & multi-ethnic club. All are welcome. A Facebook user who claimed to be a part of the protest said they have "no problem" with the boxing club.

They wrote: "We have no problem with the boxing and are not stopping any activities in the centre we don't want any unvetted men within our community. . . The community protest is not against woman and children it's about the unvetted men being placed in the community centre."

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