Eight Syrian refugee families have arrived in Ennistymon this week.
Eight Syrian refugee families have arrived in Ennistymon this week.
37 people, 16 of them children, have been re-located to the North Clare Town under a Refugee Resettlement programme led by the UNHCR.
16 adults and 21 children, refugee families from Syria, arrived in Ennistymon on Tuesday while one more family, comprised of 2 adults and 3 children, are due there in the coming weeks.
Clare County Council says they're spending the first week in the town "familiarising themselves with the area" and that they're receiving assistance from the Department of Justice and other agencies.
Continued support will be provided going forward by the Council, and also by the likes of TUSLA, the HSE, The Limerick + Clare Educational Training Board, CLSC, the Department of Social Protection, the county's Childcare Committee and Immigrant Support Centre, Gardaí and the Shannon and Ennistymon Family Resource Centres.
This is the second group of Syrian refugees to arrive in Clare, after nine other families moved into the Shannon and Sixmilebridge areas last year.
Clare County Council recently said no more families will be re-located in the county as the county's quota had been fulfilled.
