Ireland has no more space to host Ukrainian refugees, and those arriving in the coming days face being stranded at Dublin Airport. In a briefing to NGOs on Wednesday, the Department of Children announced that Dublin’s Citywest Hotel – recently repurposed as accommodation for asylum seekers – had reached capacity.
The state has taken in more than 40,000 Ukrainians since February, and until recently the government insisted that restricting the influx was out of the question.
With no other facilities available, new arrivals may be forced to sleep at the airport, NGOs were told. Some 250 people stayed in an old terminal building on Wednesday night, several Irish media outlets reported.
Prime Minister Micheal Martin will meet with ministers on Thursday to discuss the situation, a government spokeswoman told the Irish Times. In a press conference on…