Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

You just bumped into a Ukrainian and they volunteered all that information?

Probably driving an Audi and living in a 4 bed detached too right?

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Ukraine is vast. If you’re over on the polish or Hungarian border, life has continued as is but you can now travel visa free and automatically claim welfare in Europe- no questions asked. Of course it should be limited to women/children only but you’d then have the gender mafia having a meltdown

They know alright but they’re so absorbed in the notion that “all Irish are so racist” that they won’t move from that fixed point- basically ANY legitimate criticism of the craziness of handing foreign people places to live before the existing population is all “racism”

Maybe they were Ukrainians who already live here and own a busines !! There are many Ukrainians who are helping their countrymen settle and in fact giving people lifts to appointments etc . You have no clue who the men were actually

I walked past a spanish reg on my way to the corner shop.

I guess I'm Spanish now.

I personally know of one Ukrainian business man who owns a chain of coffee shops working tirelessly to help his countrymen . He drives them where they need to be so No I wont give you a break I will continue to post facts

If he is driving around in a Ukrainian reg car whilst living here full time then that’s actually illegal and revenue would be on to him. Is he?

They forgot to mention the mythical free pram they left on the bus the other day. Its kinda hilarious seeing all these stories.

I know who you are talking about personally if coffee shop is AOC. He's a very good guy.

You can be accepting of refugees and very critical of the Governments handling of this at the same time. As I am.

The cabinet seem to have overcommitted to everyone with out thinking anything through which is going to be a monumental **** up. Of course they will try bury it all in hotels and local authority housing indefinitely.

Connected people will become very wealthy because of it whilst many middle income earners will never have their own roof over their head as is needed in this country because renting long term does simply not work.

There is an urban myth about a woman leaving her pram on the bus - over the years she has been a roma, a traveller, an unemployed woman, an asylum seeker, a black woman, a homeless woman and she gets free prams every day 🤣

Imagine being so cold hearted that you begrudge a child who has just escaped a war a pram

one of the saddest clips I saw on BBC news was a train station In Kyiv

The train was packed with women and children and as it left the station there was a line of prams and buggies left behind because there was no room on the train

The buggies in the airport were donated by companies and the public

But some people just cannot see beyond their own anger

You must get dizzy wit the endless virtue signalling. Go easy

Was chatting to an African yesterday, settled here kids in school, works in healthcare, wife's a nurse. Can't get a family doctor, on a list for over a year, scratching his head as to why the Ukrainians are getting preferential treatment. I asked what does he do when a doctor is required, they've no choice but to go to the nearest hospitals emergency department.

So he's not happy about the Ukrainians special treatment, I'm not happy the justice minister even contemplated taking people's homes by force, Citizen Journalist isn't happy that 30% aren't Ukrainian. People who want to buy a house have to compete with Councils. The list goes on.

What's the government playing at, they seem to enjoy pitting people against each other unnecessarily and it didn't start with the Ukranian situation.