Hotel Killarney

Residents living at Hotel Killarney received a letter from the Department of Children and Equality on Monday afternoon saying that they are to be moved to a new ...

Twenty-nine-year-old Alina Maslk has rebuilt her life following the end of her dancing career when she moved to Ireland from the Ukraine. How will I live without friends, how will I tell my children they have to move?” “It is very difficult, it is impossible...I have [a] job, my children are in school. She has returned to college and is studying at the Kerry College of Education. They were to be moved today. It will cause big stress to children and to me, I have [a] job and friends.

135 Ukrainian women and children are due to arrive at Hotel Westport later today, as Minister Roderic O'Gorman said in the Dail yesterday that while the ...

The first bus is set to depart at 11am. However, Minister Roderic O’Gorman and his department said while the move is regrettable, it’s necessary. 135 Ukrainian women and children are due to arrive at Hotel Westport later today, as Minister Roderic O’Gorman said in the Dail yesterday that while the move is regrettable, it is necessary.

Group of 135 women and children had been told on Monday they would be bussed from Killarney to Westport at noon today.

IPAS officials will be in touch with the families to let them know about accommodation arrangements,” it said. In light of these efforts, the move to Westport will not proceed, with those affected remaining in Killarney in new accommodation. “This is the right decision.

The government's reversed a decision to move around 135 Ukrainian refugees from Kerry to Mayo. The women and children had been given just 48 hours notice of ...

The Government will reverse the controversial decision to relocate more than 135 Ukrainian women and children from a Killarney hotel to Westport, Co Mayo on ...

It was “very inhumane and worrying” that when solutions were brought to the attention of “the powers that be” that the decision had not been reversed. The Mayor of Killarney Niall Kelleher said the town was coming up with solutions to the issue of Ukrainian women and children being moved from the Kerry town to Mayo. There was considerable anger among locals in Killarney and within the Government at the removal of the migrants in order to make way for almost 200 males who have been bussed into Killarney from Citywest in Dublin.

The Department for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has said it “worked intensively overnight” to source alternative accommodation for the ...

IPAS officials will be in touch with the families to let them know about accommodation arrangements. “Hotels are not suitable for families. For the price of one cup of coffee each week you can make sure we can keep reliable, meaningful news open to everyone regardless of their ability to pay. The Department for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has said it “worked intensively overnight” to source alternative accommodation for the 135 women and children who have been staying at a hotel in the Co Kerry town. For the price of one cup of coffee each week you can help keep paywalls away. More than 5,000 readers have already pitched in to keep free access to The Journal.

Yesterday Minister Roderic O'Gorman had stated that there would be no U-turn on the decision to move the Ukrainian woman and children from Hotel Killarney to ...

He argued that it was unfair to uproot the children who had settled into a local school and the women, many of whom, had already found employment. The Cathaoirleach of Killarney Municipal District Niall Kelleher, was among a number of local Killarney groups and individuals that had opposed the sudden move on the 135 women and children who had been in the town since March. The women and children had only been given 48 hours notice of the move, a move that was widely opposed.

Just minutes before busses arrived to take members of the Ukrainian community who were living in Hotel Killarney to Westport, news came through of the U-turn by ...

The Ukrainian students were not alone integrated in St Brendan’s but “they have added to the school community”. “The bus trip would have been very difficult and he’s under care of the local health services. It is not yet clear how many of the 135 will remain in the hotel. He had called for “a stay of execution” on Radio Kerry. Thankfully, they can go back to the classrooms.” There were a lot of offers from the people around Killarney. A number of the Ukrainian women had vowed not to get on the bus. The Ukrainian refugees — who have been staying at the hotel for six months and are made up mostly of women and children — were being relocated to make room for 200 male asylum-seekers. “We felt strongly as a school community that this was the wrong decision. He described the removal as “inhumane and heartless”. Principal of St Brendan’s College Seán Coffey said the issue for schools was one of trust. My daughter and my son go to school."

It was reported that they were being moved from Hotel Killarney to accommodate almost 200 male asylum seekers. Alina Maslak had earlier spoken of her upset ...

They were bussed to Hotel Killarney on Saturday from City West. The Department of Children and Equality said in a statement to independent.ie that “the accommodation in Killarney is required in order to prevent International Applicants from entering homelessness”. It’s so hard when you must finish and (must) begin again. He told RTE Radio: “We find it particularly hard to find accommodation for those in the international protection process, and the hotel that is in question here in Killarney is one that we can use for international protection. A decision to transfer Ukrainian refugees from their home in a Kerry hotel is to be reversed, it has emerged. Decision to transfer Ukrainian refugees from Kerry hotel set to be reversed

Hanna Believa with Mikolai and Yurii pictured at the hotel Killarney after the decision to move 135 Ukrainian women and children from Hotel Killarney to ...

He said huge resources had been allocated to help the children adjust to their new lives and school and they were happily settled in Killarney. “The plight of the Ukrainian families in Killarney, given less than 48 hours’ notice to move to Mayo, has rightfully touched everyone’s hearts. Teachers from St Oliver’s National School in Ballycasheen where many of the children attend were also at the hotel this morning to show their support.