Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

How has it been "noticeable that young men of fighting age have started to arrive" in the past week?

There is a fine between legitimate concerns and just making stuff up.

Unless you have evidence to share from the past week of course.

If you can afford a holiday home , I think you'll be alright.

At this stage I think FF FG are intentionally destroying the country because they know SF will be in power after the next election. If SF have to abandon all their policies and enforce strict austerity during their first stint in power that could damage them long term. More likely though SF would spend us into bankruptcy.

Some good trolling :)

I mean long term what impact is this going to have on the future of the country.

Schools were overcrowded as it is with too many pupils to one teacher.

Now teachers are going to have more kids and then add in the fact a lot of these kids won't speak English.

That is going to have a huge impact on our children's education.

Then Covid will be rolled out in a few weeks for remote learning in college so they can keep Ukrainians in student accommodation.

Yet people cheer on bringing as many people as they can into the country.

You would have to imagine these people have no kids or grandkids who are going to struggle and be negatively impacted by this.

Teachers have a tough job as it is I would say they are not looking forward to having to teach students who in a lot of cases don't speak English.

Never mind the long time lurkers, it's time the long time workers had some input into how their taxes are squandered, then to be labelled xenophobic, far right or rasist by the wokists for daring to care about what sort of a country we will leave to those coming after us, they can't see the wood for the trees those guys so blinded are they by their constant virtue signalling, a very dangerous bunch who would lead the country God knows where

I can indeed but a little busy with these at the moment 😁 will try later . Preparing a few Goodies for a party

Party at Dempo’s!!

Edit: I’ll bring the daiquiris

Angry Incels now 😳

Hold water in a debate you've belatedly joined , Please , too much on an otherwise delightful morning .

I'd be a little concerned at that proposal, they've not got a great Track record when it comes to Baggage and keep cancelling flights , could get even more messy 😏

I think the domestic sale of Russian flags would flourish if that scenario was ever threatened

Could we stop sniping at each other and try and move forward here. The figures from the Cso which I posted earlier show that the refugee population from Ukraine is changing as well as increasing. The solutions we have used so far such as hotels will no longer work, if they ever did. In addition there are over 6 million internally displaced people in Ukraine. https://www.internal-displacement.org/countries/ukraine With the best will in the world we cannot house 6 million, and many of those do not want to leave but are getting little or no support. Surely one way forward is to devote some of the resources we have set aside to support internally displaced people in Ukraine. And why is there such little support for people in Ukraine if so much money is being pumped into it? Is it all going on weapons?

You also have to admire some people and their good intentions that would step over the Irish person sleeping on the street and also begrudge refuge to little kids fleeing a war. Thinking they are great to be going on about how their own dole might be raised a little less quickly.

Hopefully, if they ever manage to stop scrounging off the State, they might be able to contribute something and even eventually be able to help others.

Handy to have those homeless Irish people there to wheel out whenever they are useful though? Did you start, or contribute to, many threads before the Ukrainian war which were calling for better supports for Irish homeless? Did you, perhaps, start a thread calling for increased services to provide better treatment facilities to junkies? Were you a vociferous supporter of the stories like Ms. Cash?