Ukrainian women and children to be moved from Kerry to make space for male asylum-seekers

Some 135 Ukrainian women and children who have been staying in a Killarney hotel since March are to be moved to Mayo to make way for asylum-seekers moved from CityWest in Dublin

The Ukrainian community at Hotel Killarney, including up to 40 school-going children, are to be bussed to Westport on Wednesday.

Some 135 Ukrainian women and children who have been staying in a Killarney hotel since March have been given less than 48 hours' notice that they are being moved to Co Mayo to make way for almost 200 male asylum-seekers.

The mayor of Killarney told an emergency meeting of community leaders that moving asylum-seekers into a hotel and moving out Ukrainian refugees living there for six months “does not make any sense”.