There have been confrontations between anti-immigration protestors and gardaí after protesters marched to the International Protection Office on Mount Street in Dublin city centre.
Since March, a growing number of tents have been pitched outside the office and in surrounding streets.
The protestors shouted at asylum seekers, telling them they were not welcome and there were also confrontations with gardaí, as some pursued a man they objected to.
A number of garda units, including one Public Order unit, attended the scene. No arrests were made.
"All persons present later dispersed from the scene," An Garda Síochána said in a statement.
"At this time, no further incidents have been reported in the area."
These scenes follow a protest last night a few streets away at another place asylum seekers had set up a camp that have been "unreservedly" condemned by the Taoiseach.
Leo Varadkar described the incident as "malign opportunism" by a "tiny minority of people [who] are clearly determined to make capital out of a difficult situation".
He said such actions cannot be tolerated.
A man in his 30s was arrested for a minor public order offence last night and has since been charged to appear before Dublin District Court later this month.
Gardaí have also said a fire was started in the area where people had been camping, but they say no one was in the camp at the time and there were no injuries.
There had been a protest called against the presence of people camping at the back of the derelict St Andrew's Court flats between Pearse Street and Holles Street.
Another protest was organised in support of the asylum seekers and gardaí formed a line to separate the two.
The fire was started as people were dispersing, according to gardaí.
Minister for Justice Simon Harris has described the incident as "utterly appalling and unacceptable".
In a tweet, the Fine Gael TD said that "everyone in this country has a right to be safe" and added that "the right to protest is never a right to endanger or intimidate".
Sinn Féin's housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin also condemned the protest, saying that what happened was an "outrage".
"This is not who we are as a people," he said in a tweet.
The Department Children. Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Affairs has said that officials are liaising with gardaí over the incident.
They said that the camp had been subject to anti-immigrant protests in recent days.
Last week there were 582 recently arrived asylum seekers without State provided accommodation.
The Government stopped offering accommodation to newly arrived adult asylum seekers without children on 24 January, citing a nationwide shortage, the Dept has said.
In a statement, the Dept said work is taking place to secure further accommodation and it "hopes to deliver significant capacity in the coming weeks to alleviate the shortages being experienced presently".
The Dept also said that in the interim work is "ongoing to increase support for those who are without accommodation".
The Irish Refugee Council described the events last night as shocking and of deep concern.
It says it has been working with nearly 400 asylum seekers who were homeless after coming to Ireland.
People had been robbed, assaulted and suffered worsening health problems as a result of homelessness but that what happened last night was a new low, the body said.
It said this shows the real urgency for all of Government to act to support people in this situation.
A group calling itself the Revolutionary Housing League has said it has found alternative accommodation for the people who had been staying in the camp.
The group said it explained to the people who had been staying there that it was no longer safe and brought them to what it describes as "a safe location which is a long-vacant building with heating, electricity, water and furnishing, providing what the State refused to."
It accuses the Government of allowing the housing crisis and rising concern about immigration to divide communities.
