Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

Do you know all the suburbs of Kyiv or Berlin or Munich ? And if they are upper , middle or lower class .?

Do you mean the war zone to the far east of Ukraine 🤔 approximately 20% of Ukraines entire land mass 🤔

i think the problem is people are not listening to the native population, citizens, Irish people… who have concerns regarding what transpired, what continues to transpire in and to our country and how that’s going to be impacting our wellbeing going forward.

a rather passive aggressive brush off by politicians, ngo’s and those in favour of what’s going on..

put yourself in these peoples shoes ?

put myself in my parents shoes.. working and paying tax all their lives, both pensioners, medical cards taken, private pensions taxed on the double…

have struggled accessing healthcare when required…

sorry, as much empathy for Ukrainians as I have, the wellbeing of my family is paramount.

They are not an outlier in this scenario,,, healthcare, housing, supports and the general wellbeing of this population, of us is on the skids. We are no longer a priority here, our health and wellbeing is secondary now. That McEntee and friends have said as much while looking all smug and delighted with themselves.

Lad not far off pension age fleeing a war zone and destroyed city asks about work and accommodation, commendable to say the least, but of course the online weirdos have an issue with him.

I thought you were on Hols, if I had curtains and twitched, I'd be looking out at a forest and mountains and birds flying over with packed lunch"s

Hard to miss 22 Ukrainian women queuing up in a tiny village PO or them waiting for their private bus shuttle then around 🙄

I actually tried to engage with them outside the post office and they were moved along by what appeared to be a guide or leader

You are hardly surprised by this are you?

I mean look at it from their perspective, a strange man hanging outside a post office gawking and trying to engage with a group of teenage girls and women, of course they were going to be ushered on. I'm sure it was completely innocent on your behalf but it could well be construed as pretty creepy behaviour whether the young girls and women were Ukrainian or not.

I've never gone up to a bunch of young girls or young women during the day on the street I didn't know and discussed the weather or engaged in "small talk", it's hardly a social setting and is at best inappropriate.

But what I think or you think or what the OP think is irrelevant, everyone is entitled to their privacy, especially on a public street and this group of people didn't want to engage which is their right and which should be respected, they shouldn't be gossiped about on the internet for doing so, but sure it's 2022. 😕

Now thats just silly, at this moment and time there are thousands and thousands of humans making "small talk" all around the world without a language in common and they manage, its what we do

Hold your horses, you do know that this is an era of technology?

My son and his friends were approached in a local bar recently, by 5 Ukrainian men. They were being housed upstairs in the small hotel. They got talking by offering cigarettes to my son and his friends, none of them smoke, but they conversed between hand gestures and google translate. Amazing stuff. You should try it sometime.

As I said, they were men, ages 18 to 22. My son didn't take a blood sample from them or write down names, so no need to ask me for verification of the conversation.