'Don't overthink it': Woman urges others to open their homes to Ukrainian refugees

Wicklow woman Angela Flynn, and her partner Paul McRedmond. Angela spoke glowingly of her experience with the Red Cross and the two refugees, Mahmoud Altouba and Baara Hindi, she took into her Kilmacanogue home in 2016.

A Wicklow woman who invited two Syrian refugees to live with her during the 2016 humanitarian crisis has advised people seeking to help civilians fleeing Ukraine: “Don’t overthink it.”

The Red Cross register of pledges, a portal for people here to register their desire to share their home or offer a vacant property to refugees from Ukraine, has received more than 6,100 pledges in the three days in which it has been active.