Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

Lol still trying to deny the government mandated construction shutdown - 🤣

no upset here, just pointing out that plenty of people coming here as "refugees" are not coming from war torn areas or anything like it. You tried to paint the situation as everyone running from a warzone, when the reality is plenty are coming not only from peaceful west Ukraine, but some from elsewhere in Europe, and even some from across the ocean!

Unless there is a war going on in Miami??😂

I'm pretty sure you have the wrong poster, it's dancing daisys husband who is going to work away. Also from what I've taken from her posts she lives somewhere around bundoran. Donegal doesn't have a huge cost of living, but it also suffers from holiday home owners outbidding locals, a scarcity of rental property and a complete lack of jobs. Bundoran has over 300 Ukranians now in a town that has a permanent population of around 2000. This puts extreme pressure on the already scant resources.

You can sit on your high horse collecting your pension with your mortgage paid off, but for the rest of us with bills and young children it is a very worrying time. Because our already scarce resources are being further stretched and as much as we have pity for GENUINE refugees, we also realise that we're getting shafted for the feels

Bundoran lives on tourists also, so to have 300 hotel beds out of action those tourist businesses will be hurting very badly

You do realise the same "sources" you used for the pandemic are now pumping you with disinformation about Ukraine.

You should really spend the weekend giving your social media a good cull.

Anyway are you going to tell me about this Miami couple or just going to keep up the vague references?

That's very true, we were actually looking recently to go down for a night but it was too expensive. I mean bundoran is always busy in the summer but I wasn't prepared to spend the guts of 300 quid for a night away. 300 beds out of action is a lot for a tourist town.

Gallaghers in letterkenny is the same, I know a few people who had booked it months ago for the rally then they were cancelled because the hotel was housing refugees. I will admit I hate rally weekend but its a money spinner for letterkenny businesses. The people who were cancelled didn't come to the rally because they couldn't get another place to stay. More money lost that the government is going to need to pay for these hotels!

Yer man went on liveline to complain to Joe about not getting a nice enough apartment from the taxpayer, told his story about bringing the family from Miami and that he was Ukrainian etc etc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058199770/liveline-thread-with-no-name-host-with-no-shame/p1791

Was well covered in the liveline thread

As for your assertions of russian disinformation - if you cant bring up any examples of it in this thread then dont bother posting. You're embarrassing yourself

There was a glamping site beside me that was meant to open for tourists in May. It never opened, the refugees now live in the wee huts. The fella who owns it is laughing all the way to the bank. The pubs and restaurants aren't, the gps who were already under pressure aren't now that they have nearly 100 new patients to take care of.

Someone posted earlier that the refugees only use the medical cards for emergency a and e visits. That's complete crap. I work in a chemist and I can tell you for a fact the medical cards are being well used in the surgery. Plus even if they were only being used for a and e, letterkenny hospital is always absolute mayhem. It's one hospital to serve 160,000 people. Donegal can't cope with the influx anymore but yet we are once again the government fall back

I was called a putinbot on this a while ago, Vladimir if you're reading will u pm me for my account details! I still haven't got a fiver- n no I don't take roubles before you ask!

It's simple we are just going to replace the tourism industry with a refugee industry! Twitter likes may sustain the communities that no longer have accommodation for tourists .

He clearly doesnt want to pay his own way as he felt so strongly as to ring up joe duffy to complain about the offer of accommodation not being to his liking (apartments in youghal not enough for him?)

And all this while poor people being blown to bits in Donbas, sad.

Where were you educated?

Anyway you would be entitled to all that too if your circumstances required it.

But like you said, you have a good government job and loving and safe family.

It actually sounds like you are woefully unhappy, but again not the thread for it.

I think there are a few assumptions you are making though I value your input on this as somebody who has knowledge of the system, or rather lack of a system.

What happens if more than 25 pupils are added?

I believe at least 1/5 Ukraine refugees are young children according to various reports. Therfore its possible that 65 of the refugees in Bundoran are school students.

And was the school expanding already due to a large existing demand? What about existing waiting lists?

In addition , one 'extra class' budget will probably just be split across all the classes making the class sizes bigger in most cases I guess.

And as you know from dealing with immigrants they may require more language support and integration support, more time consuming and resource intensive.

The key determinant for quality education is the teacher : pupil ratio , we know this from peer reviewed studies on education. Simply put , the quality of education is lilely to drop for the students in that school .

I don't know any girls called Timmy, apologies.

IT was your claim, one you backed up by linking to a liveline thread, which is at best the inside of a racist taxi drivers head.

So basically you are jealous because a Doctor chose to come to Ireland to raise his family and pay his own way, something he is perfectly entitled to do.

That's nothing but rancid begrudgery.