Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

Radio 1 Morning Ireland highlighting the plight of a Nigerian in Bucharest seeking to come to Ireland with the same entitlements bestowed upon Ukrainian citizens.

Some refugees have been housed locally here in North Donegal, fairly rural location.

Someone I know was speaking to one of them, and they are under the belief that they are only here temporarily, and will be moved to a city at some point in the future. They don't want to be in such a remote location.

I dont think the Ukranians will have an issue at all if they have to move somewhere else after 6 months, so I wouldnt let that worry you. These people have been through worse so far already and that will be small potatoes compared to what they have already been through.

So if you think you can handle asking them to leave (if you dont want to let them stay on), then thats all that should matter to you. Give them as little or as much time as you feel is right for you and your family. Just remember though that even loved ones become a pain if they stay with you too long, so there is going to be some stress in the house depending on yours and their personalities. Some people can manage that, others cant.

The 'solution' is to insist that refugees from what are effectively NATO proxy wars are the responsibility of NATO countries.

A Nigerian citizen whose parents live in Ireland and have Stamp 4, and his sister has Irish citizenship. Ireland says he is not eligible to avail of the visa waiver for those fleeing UA

I know someone who had Ukrainian residency but from Nigeria.

He was in the middle of renouncing his Nigerian citizenship and awaiting his Ukrainian passport.

He left Ukraine with his new passport and just had his residency documents.

You can't be a dual citizen from Nigeria.

Is this sarcasm? I can’t tell

The failure of pledges to materialise is looking like it's having a large impact on how this response is being organised. The uncertainty of whether camp beds will be needed now is largely down to not knowing how many people will make good on their promises. It would have been far far better had they not pledged at all. There are no Twitter likes or dopamine hits in that though.

The next issue to come will be the sports centres and community halls that will be required. Who will want to see these spaces given up for over a year minimum?

We will get to see just how cheap talk tends to be.

Yes, we’ll have people using community facilities for everything from childminding, exercise classes and so on getting told they will need to find new arrangements.

By GDP capita the Ukraine is and has been for some time the poorest country in Europe…

Cost of living is high here but with access to the jobs market, free housing…better renumeration…the numbers staying or wanting to return will be tens of thousands by my reckoning.

going to go from families not coping to an entire country and it’s services…

Surely that can't be true?

Im sure the vast majority are happy for refuge and don't want preferential treatment to existing people in Ireland.

If she wants her own front door, she should have a look on daft.ie

The failure lies also with the fact that the Red Cross was very slow to get in touch with people who pledged homes or rooms . People got fed up with no contact whatsoever and went to hotels and picked people up . And its still going on . I would be very tempted to do the same to be honest as waiting for the Red Cross is incredibly frustrating

What, people just rocked up to a hotel and went “free room in mine for Ukrainian refugees”?

Are you actually joking ? Two months is extremely slow in humanitarian crisis . Poland opened its doors on day 1 and invited refugees in to their homes

In a humanitarian disaster you dont have two months to didder around you get it up and running asap !

I do think a lot of the lastminute.com decisions to renege on accommodation offers comes from people who maybe have had a moment of clarity, and realise what they may be getting themselves into.