A hundred thousand welcomes: How Ireland has embraced Ukrainians fleeing war
The Independent says at the arrivals hall in Dublin airport a grandmother won’t let go of her newborn grandson. Older generations of one family gather to welcome the next one home.
Friends and lovers rugby-tackle embrace over trolleys laden with suitcases. Someone drops an AirPod. A stranger alerts its owner, nodding to the tiled stone floor.
In the background, a pianist plays David Gray’s “This Year’s Love” on a nearby piano.
In the midst of all this, a silent group of about a dozen women and children file through, guided by airport officials. Phone chargers and cables stuff their back pockets. They carry only backpacks. No one in arrivals notices the passing refugees.
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