Refugees in Ireland: Grateful for sanctuary and in search of a normal life
Ireland’s newest family, the Al Hariris, fled Syria to a hostile Turkey in 2015, before making the “last-resort” decision in March 2016, to take a 7m inflatable raft carrying 47 passengers, across the Mediterranean.
They ended up living in tents in a Greek refugee camp for approximately nine months and, on December 16, arrived in Mosney, Co Meath, with the hope of reclaiming their lives and starting over.
