Ukrainian in Ireland: 'Every time, you’re back sitting on your luggage again'

Maya Tsuprenko, a ballerina and dance teacher, from Ukraine has had to change accommodation a number of times and is now looking for a place in Dublin where she is due to take up a job in September. PIcture: Conor Ó Mearáin / Collins Photos

More than a year after ballerina Maya Tsuprenko got trapped in Ireland when bombs started dropping on her hometown in Ukraine — just hours after she came here for a sold-out ballet tour — she faces having nowhere to go again.

Maya spent months in a hotel in Ireland following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, unable to return home, watching the carnage unfold on a TV screen.