'A home at last': Huge effort to open Mitchelstown homes for the needy to Ukrainians 

“We have been made to feel very welcome in this country right from the word go."

A Ukrainian mother and daughter welcomed by the warden of Kingston College, in Mitchelstown, Co Cork. Picture: Neil Michael.

When Carole Bradley laid down tiles on the basement floor of her parents' former home, she had no idea they would be of any significance years later.

But as she stared down at them recently, the penny dropped.