Post Tagged with: "Refugees"

KERRY County Council is inviting applications for funding under a new scheme designed to support communities who are hosting Ukrainian refugees. The Department of Rural and Community Development has announced details of a €50 million national fund to support the development of community infrastructure and facilities in recognition of the […]

KILLARNEY will receive 55 refugees into the town in the coming days. They will be accommodated in Linden House on the New Road which has previously housed asylum seekers. Mayor of Killarney, Cllr Niall Kelleher, has expressed concern that the local community and Kerry County Council had not been consulted […]

A TRALEE woman who was affected by the plight of people in ‘The Jungle’ in Calais when she volunteered two years ago, is heading to Paris to help homeless refugees. Catherine Tangney from Oakpark will travel to the French capital on August 15 where she plans providing aid to refugees. […]

SIXTH year students at Presentation Secondary School Tralee took part in a sleepover in the school on Friday November 20 to raise funds for Syrian refugees. Forty-eight sixth year students took part in what was a very enjoyable night with a number of school staff staying the night also. The cheque […]

TEN refugee families from Lebanon will be arriving in Tralee in the coming weeks as part of the national resettlement programme. Two more families will be housed in Killarney, while a further 17 families will arrive in Kerry early next year. The interagency team – comprising Kerry County Council, Tralee […]

FORTY-FIVE Syrian and Iraqi refugees will arrive in Kerry in December. The refugees, comprising of 11 families, are ready to be housed in Tralee and Killarney. It is expected that 17 more families totaling 70 people will arrive in January and February 2016 as part of the the national resettlement programme […]

  THE 11 refugee families set to arrive in Tralee and Killarney in November and a further 16 families in January and February, will not impact too much on the housing list according to the Director of Services in Kerry County Council. Forty-five is the number of first phase refugees coming to Kerry, with […]