Residents of Ireland’s capital have turned out to protest against the accommodation of several hundred Ukrainian refugees in the city, according to an Irish Mirror publication.
Hundreds of Dubliners have taken to the streets to express their opposition to the government’s decision to house 380 Ukrainians in a building in the city’s central East Wall area.
The locals are not happy with the concentration of such a large number of refugees there, as according to the city’s Department of Integration, a hundred Ukrainians have already been accommodated there so far. According to the newspaper, these are all “single men”. The Irish are certain that entire families will now arrive in the city.
Irish Integration Minister Roderick O’Gorman and a representative of the city authorities, Pascal Donoghue, met with the protesters to resolve the conflict situation and told the residents that the accommodation of refugees in their area was a “crisis” response to the “international emergency situation”.
It is worth adding that more than 62,000 Ukrainians have already arrived in Ireland, with local authorities predicting that this number could reach 72,000 by the end of December.
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