Protesters in Co Clare, who have been blocking access to a road leading to a hotel being used to house asylum seekers, have removed their barricades.
They will also no longer protest at the entrance to the hotel itself, but say they will continue their presence with a peaceful protest at the road access points.
However, the community at Inch said they will continue to oppose the housing of asylum seekers at the Magowna House hotel located close to where they live.
Last Monday, after 33 asylum seekers arrived by bus at the hotel, local people blocked access to the road.
In a statement this morning, they said they welcome the engagement with Minister of State Joe O'Brien in the past few days and will remove the blockade as he has requested, for now.
They said they continue to oppose the location as suitable for housing asylum seekers and look forward to further talks in the coming days.
It follows a meeting last night in Kilmaley attended by over 100 local people to discuss how they move forward, following the intervention of Mr O'Brien last Thursday evening.
He asked them to end the protest and committed to no further additions at the facility over the next four weeks, and that he would communicate with them at that time.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar also said that this commitment should be enough for the local community to end their blockade.
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A volunteer with Fáilte Isteach, which helps people with integration and learning English, welcomed the lifting of the blockade, but said while people have a right to have their concerns addressed that was not the right way to do it.
Martin Vernon, who is from Ennis and volunteers with Fáilte Isteach, said some of the asylum seekers who were moved to the hotel told him they had been given 30 minutes of notice that they were to be moved from Citywest in Dublin and did not know where they were going.
Speaking on RTÉ's Brendan O'Connor programme, Mr Vernon said they were frightened by the situation they were in.
"What they want is to be safe, they want to do all the things that we want to do, work and study and very happy to pay their taxes. They want to play sport and music, volunteer and give something back because they are very grateful to be here. They have all kinds of skills and things that we need here".
Fianna Fáil Senator Timmy Dooley welcomed the lifting of the barricades after a "difficult week" for all involved. He said it had been a traumatic week for asylum seekers.
Speaking on RTÉ's This Week, he said: "The lifting of the blockade will reduce the tension and deescalate the situation, allow time and space to engage with others in that area and come to accept that their fears held or still hold may over time not be as relevant as they have been for the last six days".
The Co Clare politician said the scale of the challenge the Government is facing is very large, with limited resources, and takes time but that communication could be handled better.
It is the Government’s intention to improve communication, he said, but added that it would be wrong to think that early communication would make all issues go away.
"There are some people who will have a problem with the principle in the first instance."
Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs Seán Fleming also welcomed the news that the protesters had removed their barriers.
Mr Fleming said the incident also highlighted the need for better communication with local communities around housing asylum seekers.
"Communication started after the blockade went up, it might have been better if we had more communication in advance and we might not have had that scene."
