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>Drivers on the popular Dublin Express route report that each journey carries an average of eight asylum seekers making the two-and-a-half-hour trip south. This surge began about six months ago and shows no signs of slowing down. >With 17 trips a day from Belfast to Dublin, and an estimated 2,125 journeys so far this year, the coaches may have transported as many as 17,000 asylum seekers in 2024 alone. >One driver for Dublin Express shared his frustration with the recent increase in asylum seekers using fake tickets to board the coaches. >"They’re often travelling using a photograph of a ticket that has clearly been bought by someone else," he said. "We can tell because they’re all using the same name, but it’s hard to stop because we don’t scan the tickets." Sources have also told me that buses are now taking migrants from Dover to Scotland to catch the ferry to the north and then a bus to Longford or Galway. 🔗express.co.uk 👉🏻join Late Stage Ireland