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For a number of years now quite a few migrants, as always supposedly only Ukrainians, have been housed in the general Carraroe area. Carraroe is An Ceathrú Rua in Irish and its deep within the important Connemara Gaelteacht, important for those who wish to preserve the Irish language that is.
Particularly many of the migrants are housed in the Carraroe Hotel, down a slip road beside the Garda station in the town, but now they are expanding this presence including by sending some up the road a little into what's called a 'Holiday Village', detached 'cottages' nearby which are in fact owned by the hotel. Incidentally when these were built originally, for Padraig Lee, it was on the condition that they would only be occupied by Irish speakers. (Irish Times 14/11/2003, https://www.irishtimes.com/news/housing-for-gaelgeoiri-is-given-the-go-ahead-1.391926 .)
This has touched off some protests in the last week or so, as can be seen here:
View: https://x.com/bmcdonagh23/status/1795101628455870468
Here is a picture of the 'cottages', and a short video of the hotel site.
As you can see though unfortunately the protesters are not able to sustain any kind of permanent presence at this site.
by Brian Nugent