Irish Examiner view: We need inventive thinking on refugee housing crisis

Tented accommodation is not acceptable but could log cabins be a solution?

Millstreet Ukrainian refugee accommodation. Picture supplied by Government Information Services

While those fleeing war in Ukraine said they were grateful for a quiet place to sleep, it was still unsettling to see them spend the night on the floor of the old terminal building at Dublin Airport.

Some 250 refugees, about half of them women and children fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, had no other option as the State had run out of places to house them.