Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

The Ukrainians next to us had a ball last night, up playing music and drinking, 1 in the morning their kids were still running around.. Looks like students aren't the only ones to enjoy parties MaryAnne 😁

The Directive agrees the EU countries will take in refugees. The countries closest to Ukraine have taken in huge numbers and it's natural for some of those numbers to move on elsewhere.

Are they in government provided housing, housing provided by the public or are they in a hotel?

No its a privately owned area, they were originally built for short term holiday lets until the Ukrainians arrived to stay long term, the government pays the owner similar to the hotel set ups

Not sure if Kaiser et al (when talking about government "likes chasing") realise sheer anger there would be in most of the rest of the EU, if we rejected the EU temporary protection directive and expelled Ukrainian refugees as suggested. That's what that quite popular post amounted to. Consequences of that anger, I don't know?

One thing Irish people seem to get upset over, maybe even hard chaws who say govt. is just chasing "likes", is outsiders criticising us harshly, foreigners daring to point out when we're wrong and have completely f-cked up (which they will in spades if govt. did this, and they would be right IMO).

Doesn't happen very often but the (Irish) rage when it does is always quite a sight! Both funny and sad.

So much irony in that post. Whinging about others apparently being self-entitled, but then moaning that things are too difficult for you. Do you think that things should be a little easier for you? Maybe you even feel entitled to have things a little easier?

Get up off your arse and make your own "luck" and don't be begrudging a few little kids fleeing bombs because you think they'll reduce what handouts are available to you. Stand on your own two feet.

But sure of course. I'm having new problems in my rental and scared of eviction because there is literally nowhere else to go, I'm stressed and moody all the time, I wish I was in a brighter mood to dance and enjoy parties, fair play to them, lucky lot not a care in the world apparently. It was a sunday night so instead I was in bed like a pleb for work today 😏

It’s the people who don’t get handouts who are the people who are annoyed. It’s bad enough we have to support our own social welfare class, with free money, free housing and free everything. Now we have to support thousands of people who are coming here to hop on the gravy train and improve their quality of life.

We are taxed to the eyeballs to support a shower of wasters who can’t afford to support themselves. So you go tell all those wasters to stand on their own two feet and not expect the rest of us to provide for them.

Nobody needa to expell anybody. The government just needs to stop making Ireland the most attractive option of all for refugees to shop around for.

So you know the owner? who are they and why don't you have a word with them if their tenants are preventing you from sleeping?

It's exactly what I would be doing. Although with the thunderstorm last night there could have been a full on rave next to me and I wouldn't have heard it.

Were the posts in violation of Facebook rules? If not, she's within her rights. Now, do you know the posts are real, or not from a Putinbot masquerading as a Ukrainian refugee?

I have no problem with Ukrainians fleeing their country trying to build a normal life elsewhere.

What do Facebook rules have to do with refugees coming to Ireland?

Putinbots making false posts, whew that's a new one on me 😁 even if that were true, previous posts by Irish media have reported stories where these people have returned to Ukraine, masquerading as sob stories, Irish media are hardly 'putinbots'?

It didn't really answer my question, you seem sure they are all fleeing danger but I asked what do you think of them returning to this danger zone for breaks away? Again one Irish media report was a woman back for a Hen do.

"I have no problem with Ukrainians fleeing their country trying to build a normal life elsewhere." Does that include those 'fleeing' under false pretences like those above, who seem very unafraid to risk being blown to bits so they can return for a party?

Some people seem to have a problem with folks that get up and work hard everyday.

What , you want them to work less?

What exactly DO you want us to do...regular PaYE taxpayers?

How long would the show keep on the road? Who is going to pay for social welfare increases.....the infrastructure....the refugees?

Where is all the tax tevenue going to come from?

You know higher earners pay most of the tax already, right?

It sure is a topsy turvy world these guys live in.