A number of sports clubs and businesses who currently occupy a Leisure Centre attached to The Coral Gym in Arklow were given less than 24 hours’ notice to remove themselves from the Centre after it was designated as an accommodation site for incoming Ukrainian refugees by Wicklow County Council. The popular local centre also has […]
Madness
More than 15,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Ireland to date, and emergency accommodation is reportedly soon set to be exhausted at the current rate of arrival. According to BreakingNews.ie, the government has been informed that emergency accommodation will be depleted within weeks, and authorities will have to begin setting up tents, prefabs and modular […]
As Irish households begin to take in Ukrainian refugees, reports are emerging of alleged tension, arguments and disputes between hosts and guests. According to one TippFM report, an Irish host woman from Tipperary was forced to ask a Ukrainian woman to leave after witnessing behaviour she described as “odd.” The Irish woman said that the […]
According to a government briefing, if Ireland accepts 200,000 Ukrainian refugees it could cost billions annually. Today at a briefing on the potential cost of accommodating Ukrainian refugees, Ministers were told that the State could pay €400m per year for every 10,000 people taken in, or €2.5 billion for 100,000. However, the government has already […]
Pushback
Ireland is planning to take twice as many Ukrainian refugees than France and the United States, despite those countries having populations – and economies – orders of magnitude larger than Ireland’s. The most recent estimate from the Irish Government is that Ireland may accommodate 200,000 displaced Ukrainians, as the war in that country shows no […]
If you wanted to write an advertisement, or a recruitment campaign, for the so-called “far right”, then you couldn’t do much better than this.
A senior minister has said that Ireland is preparing to receive up to 200,000 Ukrainian refugees – ten times the number originally projected. The comments were made on RTÉ Radio’s Morning Ireland by Fianna Fáil Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue TD, who said that Ireland had no choice but to “reach out to those of our […]
The war in Ukraine shows no signs of being over soon
Even so, this all just has the air of unreality about it.
“These sanctions may backfire, and it could very well be us that end up revolting against our leaders”