Ukranians returning home for holidays etc

Great stuff. Just what this forum needs. Another thread bashing migrants. Bonus points for "I have a good friend" being the main source of info for this one.

Well its no worse than the likes of you who seem happy with the way things are at the moment.

"Irish people are fed up"

Irish person here. Don't speak for me please

Another one who sees no problem with this country being taken advantage of.

I said it already, stop speaking for me. Stop putting words in my mouth. Stop

If it is not home for holidays, it is Turkey for treatments

We are paying for their pets too

Would you hear the likes of it anywhere else

We really are Treasure Ireland, thank you FFG

My opinion is that you don't speak for all Irish people

Nope

Those nasty Ukrainians fleeing a war, many areas of their country flattened and thousands dead. Don't they know the real victims in all this are the poor Irish lads who don't like foreigners.

I'm Irish and im fed up .

paying taxes to look after people with no connection to ireland.

my eldest shares a house with 3 Ukrainians. no job just boozing away daily.

Maybe not representative because I'm told the Ukrainians are the best people in the world ever.

I just don't know them beyond a few kids in the local GAA and the two the eldest shares with.

But sound our not , I'm sick of paying got them and all the fake IPAS people .

If you're fleeing from a war or persecution and claiming status on this basis - you shouldn't be going back.

To try and excuse otherwise is ridiculous

i'm sure plenty of ukrainians left for economic reasons too, have you spoken to many? i doubt there are many economic opportunities there for a lot of people right now due to the situation at hand. Watch 20 days in Mariupol if you want to see the reality of the war over there. Normal people with normal lives one day and suddenly there's blood and guts and ruins all over the place. I know I'd be getting the f*ck out of that country ASAP if I could because Russia may yet do to Kiev what has already happened in Mariupol the way things are going.

if you are claiming ‘protection’… yet you go back repeatedly to a place where you are supposedly in danger… then you are not in danger and so you don’t need ‘protection’….it’s really that simple.

So we’ve been sold a load of garbage. Hoodwinked and lied to by our government, the EU and some of our visitors too who are repeatedly returning…for business and holiday and for other reasons.

I’d say of the numbers of Ukrainians here since the war started, which is about 130,000 going by one number I’m seeing….I’d say a lot more then half will try stay. I’d say a significant number in the Ukraine currently, be it in the military, government, healthcare or other critical services will attempt to get out to other EU countries… so I’d say any reduction of numbers long term will be wishful thinking. Id be delighted to be wrong I really would be I can’t see it turning out any other way.

How many others came here claiming to be Ukrainian, but could not say where in Ukraine they came from and spoke with a different accent, I remember seeing videos, our system really is a joke

Anyone genuinely fleeing war, would not return to the battle ground and were the men required to stay and fight?

Every 3rd person in US politics has an Irish surname, or so it seems. As an Australian, I'd just like to say I am sick to death of the number of Irish people who rock up in Australia whenever the economic conditions in Ireland turn a wee bit negative - whoosh, off the go in their hundreds of thousands to Australia, Canada, NZ the UK, Germany in the 70'. Taking houses from the locals.

Ok, I am mostly kidding, I don't actually have a gripe about Irish immigrants in Australia. My mother was born in Ireland and then left as soon as she could for less socially oppressive fields.

Seriously, the neck of Irish people whinging about Ukrainian refugees who have fled a war when Irish people have been regularly flooding out into the wider world just to chase more money.

The idea that Ukrainians are economic migrants (being pushed by the Irish far right) is malicious nonsense. A couple of million are in neighbouring Poland, a country where the standard of living and average wage is scarcely any higher than Ukraine.

so a generous package upon arriving here was a factor in their decision to come, who'd have thunk it