Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

I have to laugh at some of ye. So much offense taken at the idea of a Ukrainian turning down some accommodation offer that you want to send them back to the war zone.

Seriously fkd up priorities lol

Turning down accommodation 7 times as the business post article states is taking the f king piss. I don’t think any of the Ukrainians who were stuck in Mariupol for 3 months with rotting corpses in the street would be that pernickety so these people in question didn’t escape that much horror to be so far up their own holes.

Do they think it’s the Ritz? They’re refugees, not a head of state on a state visit. They have zero shame and some neck on them to turn down accommodation 7 times because it wasn’t to their liking even though they’ve come from a much poorer country . So yeah those of them who are here and behaving like that should be told you accept it or leave the state as you’re holding up the entire process and taking us for fools.

Even the bend over backwards government is finally reacting to it so must be bad. I think it’s those nose in the air vip refugees who need to get their priorities straight and the Irish government but sure we’re fked up for calling out the absolute shite that’s going on.

It's an interesting situation, because there are many countries around the world that these refugees could go to... if they refused what is on offer in Ireland.

Ireland was obliged to offer a place of refuge. It did. They're safe, and were provided everything they needed to live here. If they chose not to accept it, then that's on them, and within a very short time (considering how generous our government has been) it wouldn't take long to save what was needed to go elsewhere. The only real issue is that of visas, which isn't really much of an issue for anyone with a basic set of skills (Asia is particularly welcoming to Eastern Europeans, especially women for their modelling/media industry)

We really have too many people who believe in entitlements, but without any consideration for the costs involved in providing those entitlements.. otherwise they'd understand why such things should be exclusive to the native population... Alas.. they don't care.. and are fully prepared to sacrifice the future wellbeing of this nation so that they can appear virtuous to other people.. and the worst thing is, that the generous help they're offering isn't needed, except for a minority of the refugees involved.

I was initially very supportive of helping the refugees, because the circumstances merited it. But those circumstances have change considerably. Now, I'm thinking we should be reserving that help for those who genuinely need it, and that doesn't describe the majority of Ukrainians leaving Ukraine.

Read last week it was 3400. Where are they going to go?

I wish I could save a grand a month.