The Address Connolly
An IPAS international-protection accommodation centre operating within The Address Connolly hotel (formerly the North Star Hotel) on Amiens Street in Dublin 1, opposite Connolly Station. The gov.ie IPAS inspection report (inspected 23 April 2025) records a contracted capacity of 250 residents in 85 rooms, with 244 residents — accommodated as families — on the day of inspection. The report notes that international-protection residents are housed on the 1st-3rd floors with no segregation from regular hotel guests, who share the same entrance, stairways, lifts and gym, and that there is no dedicated communal area for residents. Inspectors also recorded overcrowding in several rooms (occupancy to be reduced to meet the 4.65m² per-person space requirement) and resident representations about limited food options and cramped rooms for families with young children.
Capacity
250
people (reported)
Per night
€84
per person (benchmark)
Annual
€7.7m
estimated
Background
The site is at The Address Connolly, 26-30 Amiens Street, Dublin 1, D01 X6P6. Irish international protection accommodation is provided through IPAS (the International Protection Accommodation Service), under the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. For how the system works and what it costs, open the cost panel on the interactive map with Ireland selected.
Cost
Irish IPAS accommodation is funded by the State. At a blended benchmark of about €84 per person per night (the 2024 whole-system average reported by RTÉ), the 250 people reported here imply roughly €7.7m per year. This is an order-of-magnitude figure for context only, not a site-specific invoice — over 90% of IPAS accommodation is commercially provided and emergency rates run far above State-owned centres.
Sources
gov.ie — IPAS / Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (County Dublin 2025 inspection collection; The Address Connolly inspection report, inspected 23 Apr 2025) · Apr 2025. View source
Coordinates geocoded from the published address/town via OpenStreetMap; status reflects the cited reporting and may have changed since.