Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

Honestly, I'm free today until lunch time, just giving him/ her some attention as it appears badly needed 😁

On the rte news last night there is a huge shortage of accommodation for Ukrainians and big numbers of asylum seekers coming also.

Councils are being told to identify sites for housing, prefab houses designs are being finalised, holiday homes looked at etc etc etc. Nothing in the piece mentioned the elephant in the room- there is no more room.

They'll be looking into renting the tents off electric picnic for the winter come the autumn!

Precisely and if I recall weren't the councils and other state agencies told to do this two months ago, it's beginning to sound like ground hog day.

But we can't mention Tents (It offends some people) 😉

Mother of God were do seriously belive 6000 people can be housed /accommodated by August 😳

The Red Cross SG has been spouting the same nonsense for months, we anticipate, we predict, we presume claptrap, the Pledged idea has I'm afraid set sail and is simply no longer a viable alternative or solution (not that it ever was)

As for predictions of increasing numbers, 100/200k were figure's banded about by government, it was never realistic to believe so many would come and more an attempt at spin, thinking if its lower people will find it more platable. This said, now it's clear the supports are more than generous with little or no checking or verifications, it wouldn't at all surprise me if we don't see a surge ahead of next winter, the only thing that might disway people coming is the increasing awareness of the chronic shortage of accommodation, who wants to travel 1000"s of miles to sleep on the floor of a Hotel Ballroom, let alone community sports hall.

The government is keeping conditions quite poor for them so they give up and go back to Ukraine.

First come first serve?

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The country as an entity is at war but it is not true to imply the entire country has been affected, infact its nonsense, as has been repeatedly noted, there are vast sways of Ukrainian that have had not so much as a fire cracker go off. This, not to imply small areas have suffered unspeakable carnage.

What has baffled me and many others is the lack of any attempt by international agencies, UN etc set up safe Zones within Ukraine itself, even Putin and his warped priorities would not dare bomb un supervised safe zones.

It's also very telling, Zelenskyy has made little effort to infact persuade people to stay who had actually no reason to leave in the first place, in essence he's quite happy for other countries take care of his responsibilities whilst he grand stands on the world stage, I believe, finally people are seeing through this former clown.

Your response is to ramp up weapon supplies, prolong this mess is utterly perplexing. Billions have been poured into this mess and we're in precisely the same position we were last March.

There is an end game coming, Putin will have made is point, Hold onto the territories he wanted. Negotiating will commence, Zelenskyy told to shut up, Ceasefire negotiated, Putin, slowly but surely welcomed back into the fold and Ukrainians left to pick up the pieces. Its not rocket science, we've Neen here before.

O and not a chance in hell, Ukraine will get membership of NATO or EU.

Jesus comrade, not even trying to hide it there.

Roll over 🤔 what gives you that impression, we both know how this will end, why pretend otherwise.

The idea the mass murdering psychopath wouldn't dare attack civilians is quite the extension of the Kremlin propaganda and lies.

You know full well I'm referring to 80% of one of the largest countries in the world, the safe passages you refer to encompass cities being bombed, neither I or anyone suggested there is no bombing and carnage taking place.

I suggest you catch up on the news, general reporting, 20% of Ukraine is occupied or affected by conflict, this is not makey uppy stuff it's facts.

I absolutely won't defend Putin he's a pig but has anyone including the UN even bothered to try and offer this as a possible solution to minimise displacement 🤔

Who is paying for the vetinary services? Irish vets doing some generous pro bono work or being funded from the same extremely limited public pot which is supposed to fund essential mental health services for people living in this country. Its all a matter of priorities and not sure current priorities are acceptable.