'We’re not going to move back to Poland, we just wanted to become Irish'

This is Cork’s newest family. Yesterday the Polish-born Iwona Skorupa (29), Mateusz (22) and their older brother Mariusz (33), all became Irish citizens together.

Nine years ago, the first members of the Skorupa family left their Baltic coast city of Gdansk in northern Poland, in dribs and drabs for Cork.

“Our whole family is here so that’s the reason, and our parents. My dad and my older brother came first and then I came with my now ex-boyfriend and then my mum came with my younger brother,” explains Iwona.