Over 5,700 empty homes offered to Irish Red Cross for Ukrainian refugees

Aiden Lonergan, National Director of Community Support at the Irish Red Cross, welcoming Svitlana Vitske, a Ukrainian Refugee at Shannon Airport last month. Picture: Brendan Gleeson

More than 5,700 empty homes have been offered to the Irish Red Cross to help house Ukrainian refugees.

According to the charity's secretary-general, Liam O'Dwyer, Irish Red Cross representatives will have reached out to all those who offered the houses by the end of the day.