Against a backdrop of policy shifts, Ukrainian refugee children embrace their Irish life
Ireland is the place they started school, joined sports clubs – yet their parents worry about how changes to citizenship eligibility may haunt their future.
The Irish Prison Service has estimated that upwards of 70 percent of people committed to prison have a drug and/or alcohol addiction.
The importance for young people to play for a club that has their own community's name on it can’t be underestimated, said club chair John Lyons.
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“If I’m delving into something difficult, I don’t mind going into the shadow canyon, but I do like to come out of it as well."
Exploring common threads, sharing meals and just being kind, are some of the ways that they are looking to take on anti-immigrant narratives about who they are, they say.
"To be honest I have not encountered a case like this in seventeen years."
Some of the other residents in the complex just off Hill Street – and a neighbouring one – complain about the noise of the playing children.
Staying there 19 to 23 hours a day does psychological harm, and also means they miss out on opportunities for education and work.
Plans show the play area at St James's National School on Basin View converted into an all-weather pitch, with floodlights, that can be used by local teams and community groups seven days a week.
The Dublin DJ and producer’s new album “Our Wires”, is “likely to be my Irish electronica release of the year”.
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