Micheal Frain

5 results

Cllr Michael Mulligan, Dr Martin Garvey and Micheal Frain on The Square, Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon. Photograph: Mick McCormack.
One year on: Ballaghaderreen and refugees ‘let down’ by State

It has been just over a year since the first group of Syrian refugees arrived at the Emergency Reception and Orientation Centre (EROC) in Ballaghaderr(...)

Syrian refugees and members of the Pakistani community in Ballaghaderreen take part in a 10-a-side soccer match at the local community playground on Saturday. Above is Sajjad Hussain, the Pakastani barber in Ballaghaderreen who organised the game, on the attack. Photograph: Brian Farrell
Ice-breaker: Syria and Pakistan play soccer in Ballaghaderreen

As another 40 Syrians arrived at the former Abbeyfield hotel in Ballaghaderreen around lunchtime last Friday, local Pakistani-born barber Sajjad Hussa(...)

Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon: “It is crucial that all sides of this debate show respect to these refugees,” says local resident Debbie Beirne. “The people themselves should never be seen as the problem.” Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimon
Syrians for Ballaghaderreen: ‘We easily forget our persecuted past’

“This is not some town down the sticks that is incapable of integration. We will work this, and could in six months’ time be seen as a shining light f(...)

Minister for Health Leo Varadkar. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Board appointees lacked marine links

Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has defended his decision to appoint three people without any seagoing experience to the Marine Casualty Investiga(...)

Senator Terry Leyden’s daughter Orla, a sitting councillor, retained a seat for Fianna Fáil in Roscommon
Roscommon Council results: Fine Gael vote implodes in the three electoral areas

Fianna Fáil taking eight out of eighteen seats on Roscommon County Council, coupled with the implosion of the Fine Gael vote in each of the three elec(...)