Ballinamore objections to 130 refugees ‘can be comprehensively addressed’

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Local group says asking the village to take in over 15% of its population almost overnight is ‘bordering on criminal’

, who will attend another public meeting in Ballinamore on Thursday, said he “can understand the concerns that are expressed” about schools, childcare and medical services.

Calling for more consultation between locals and the Department of Justice, Senator Feighan, who will contest for a Dáil seat in Sligo-Leitrim, said: “We have been here before with Ballaghaderreen and“Maybe there is a better way of informing the local communities but again this is too early, and I would like to sit back, have the meeting with the Minister, and articulate all those views across a table.

Looking back 15 years, Mr Hughes said Ballinamore had an asylum centre that never brought any issues, while one woman who lived in the centre had gone on to run a very successful business in the town.and Rooskey and elsewhere this seems to be Government policy that people are just informed overnight, and we’re basically left to just deal with it and try help integrate these people when they relocate.

He said every community in the State should take “a proportionate amount of people to live and work among us” to ensure that

 

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Ridiculous, racist, and thoroughly ignorant.

Enough of your shite DeptJusticeIRL & davidstantontd ... produce the contract that commits all this for Ballinamore.

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