New to the Parish: Melanie Labor arrived from Germany in 2006
New to the Parish: Law lecturer Thamil Ananthavinayagan arrived from Germany in 2013
New to the Parish: Jed Gjerek and his family arrived from Croatia in 2017
New to the Parish: Anna Surkova, who lives in Co Cork, arrived from Ukraine in 2018
New to the Parish: Tobi Omoteso arrived from Nigeria via the UK in 1999
New to the Parish: Vitória Régia Oliveira arrived from Salvador, Brazil in 2017
New to the Parish: Conor Murphy arrived from Australia in 2001 and again in 2013
New to the Parish: Aziz Mohiuddin arrived in 2018 from Pakistan via South Africa
New to the Parish: Patrycja Czarnoleska O’Connor, a teacher, first arrived from Poland in 2004
New to the Parish: Jiayi He arrived in Ireland from China (via Canada) in 2017
New to the Parish: Samer Arnous, a consultant cardiologist, arrived in Ireland at 17
New to the Parish: Vincenzo Rea was shocked by childcare costs and attitudes to alcohol
New to the Parish: Norman Ayala arrived in Ireland from Honduras in 2020
New to the Parish: Teresa Buczkowska arrived in Ireland from Cracow in 2005
New to the Parish: Irene Jagoba, a carer, hasn’t seen her son and daughter for 12 years
New to the Parish: Lora Ruth Wogu is proud to work at St Vincent’s but fears for her disabled son
New to the Parish: Juliana Vasconcelos, a bridge design engineer, arrived from Brazil in 2015
New to the Parish: Glorence Makharinge moved to Ireland from South Africa in 2017
New to the Parish: Lavinia Puicar was told as a teenager she could never have children
New to the Parish: Papy Kahova Kasongo arrived from Democratic Republic of Congo in 2015
Tarsila Kruse sold everything she had in Brazil, packed a bag and flew to Ireland in 2007
New to the Parish: Federico Julián González arrived from El Salvador in 1998
‘I feel alive here,’ says Kimberly Reyes who arrived from the US in 2019 to study in Cork
Godfrey Jeremiah arrived from Nigeria in 2018. ‘It was that period of heavy snow’
New to the Parish: Penny Pu arrived from the city of Dalian, in northeast China, in 2000
New to the Parish: Liezl-Maret Livingstone, a pianist, arrived from South Africa in 2019
New to the Parish: ‘People think refugees will take their resources,’ says Ghada Feddawi
New to the Parish: Athmane and Nora Yachir arrived from Algeria in 2014
New to the Parish: Paulo Cassis Peres arrived from Brazil in 2017
New to the Parish: Kamila Dydyna arrived from Poland in 2007
New to the Parish: Ariana Loyo arrived from Venezuela in 2013
New to the Parish: Eva Milka came to Ireland from Poland in 2005 and ended up starting her own snail farming business
New to the Parish: Polina Cosgrave came to Ireland from Moscow in 2015
New to the Parish: Bhisasha Chayangpath came to Dublin from Bangkok, Thailand, in 2018
New to the Parish: Anabella Parisi arrived from Argentina in 2015
Alima Doumbouya arrived from France in 2007
Carlos Alexander Montilla arrived from Venezuela in 2011 and again in 2014
New to the Parish: Chayla Rowley arrived from the United States in 2019
Although Ireland was welcoming, finding employment was difficult for Somali science teacher Abdullah Hersi, who arrived in Ireland in 1991
New to the Parish: Patrycja Jurkowska arrived from Poland in 2004 and again in 2005
New to the Parish: Imam Rabeeb Mirza and Ayesha Hasmin Mirza arrived from the UK
New to the Parish: Daniel Pereira first arrived from Brazil in 2005 one week before his 16th birthday
New to the Parish: Immanuel Darkwa arrived from Germany in 2007
New to the Parish: Nasir ElSafi, an artist and journalist, arrived from Sudan in 2017
Erin McGathy arrived from Los Angeles in 2016
New to the Parish: Suad Aldarra and Housam Ziad arrived from Syria, via Egypt, in 2014
New to the Parish: Mo Nader arrived from Egypt, via Bristol, in 2014
Oghenetano John Uwhumiakpor, who arrived from Nigeria, via Finland, in 2006, says Irish-born black teenagers are ‘suffering an identity crisis’
New to the parish: Afshin Samali arrived from Iran, via Pakistan, in 1985
New to the Parish: Rachel Waite arrived from the US in 2011
New to the Parish: Persida Caldaras arrived from France in 2002
New to the Parish: Mandla Ncube arrived from Zimbabwe in 2016
Peta Guthridge arrived from Australia in 2015
New to the Parish: Dagogo Hart arrived from Nigeria in 2010
‘For the past five years they have been sacrificing for me but now I can pay them back’
Carlos Gonzalez, from Venezuela, feels he can be 100% himself in Ireland
New to the Parish: Sugandha Arora arrived from India in 2017
New to the Parish: Alex Dalkin originally arrived from Australia in 2016
New to the Parish: Ricardo Filho arrived from Brazil in 2013 and again in 2016
New to the Parish: Cristhian Nuñez Centeno arrived from Nicaragua in 2018
New to the Parish: Hina Khan arrived from Pakistan in 2015
New to the Parish: Waheed Mohiuddin arrived from Pakistan in 2015
New to the Parish: Emese Baranyi arrived from Hungary in 2011
New to the Parish: Milan Sitko arrived from Slovakia in 2006
New to the Parish: Juliana Scodeler has built a life here since coming from Brazil in 2007
New to the Parish: Growing up in Latvia Diana Bucko’s dream was to join the police now she lives in Cork. And loves it.
New to the Parish: Nqobizitha Vella arrived from Zimbabwe in 2015
New to the Parish: Tatjana Klemanskiene arrived from Lithuania in 2008
New to the Parish: Lisa Miao and Yi (Johnny) Zheng arrived from China in 2001
New to the Parish: Salim Yattem arrived from Syria in 2015
New to the Parish: Felicia Olusanya (Felispeaks) arrived from Nigeria via France in 2003
New to the Parish: Ismail Ahmed arrived from Sudan, via Libya and France, in 2017
New to the Parish: Kasia Gwis arrived from Poland in 2006
New to the Parish: Charissa Jaganath arrived from South Africa in 2018
New to the Parish: Alexandra Soares arrived from Brazil, via Germany, in 2015
New to the Parish: Zsuzsanna Rékai from Hungary says Ireland will always be home
Dipa Rai, who arrived in Ireland in 2015, finds Irish mountains ‘flat but tough’
New To The Parish: Nasir Yasin arrived from Somalia in 2005
New to the Parish: Ghaythaa Abdualdahab arrived in Ireland from Syria, via Greece, in 2018
New to the Parish: Dalal Alshohaib arrived from Saudi Arabia in 2015
New to the Parish: Born in Taiwan, Agape Deng arrived in Ireland from the US
New to the Parish: Krzysiek and Iwa Wisniewski arrived from Poland in 2006
New to the Parish: Rwandan who arrived in 2013 is grateful to Ireland
New to the Parish: Evgeny Shtorn arrived from Russia in 2018
New to the Parish: Miriam Kaczor arrived from Poland in 2008
New to the Parish: HaiYing Huang arrived from China in 2002
New to the Parish: Filip Klubicka arrived in Ireland in August 2017
New to the Parish: Daniela Kocis-Fitzgerald arrived from Romania in 2009
New to the Parish: Daniela Vindisova from Slovakia came to Ireland in 2016
Stories of 2018: New to the Parish, Swathi Sasidharan arrived from India in 2005
New to the Parish: Norbert Nkengurutse arrived from Burundi in 2016
New to the Parish: Sibusisiwe (Busie) Mhlophe arrived from Zimbabwe in 2017
Hermon Tsegay is happy in Ireland but critical of a system that left her in limbo
New to the Parish: Bulelani Mfaco arrived from South Africa in 2015
New to the Parish: Christian Dirocie arrived from the Dominican Republic in 2014
Wojciech and Monika Kostka arrived from Poland in 2005 and have settled in Arklow
Anderson Leahy arrived from Brazil in 2013, and married his Irish boyfriend three years later
New to the Parish: Solomon Kong arrived to study accounting and finance in 2015. Settling in Ireland was not straightforward especially when it came to accommodation
New to the Parish: Karen Mukasa arrived from Uganda in 2015
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