Ireland may be required to take in well over 20,000 Ukrainian refugees

Taoiseach Micheal Martin meets people attending a demonstration outside Leinster House in Dublin to protest the Russian invasion of their country (Brian Lawless/PA)

The Taoiseach has indicated that the country may be required to take in well over the 20,000 Ukrainian refugees speculated in recent days.

Micheál Martin said it was “hard to be definitive”, but that it was possible that country could take in “multiples of 20,000” refugees displaced by the war.