Deputy Joe Flaherty previously described Ukraine in the Dáil as the 'victim of a barbaric act and a barbaric dictator who has brought wanton and untold carnage on that country'.

The local TD described Vladimir Putin as a 'Barbaric Dictator' in the Dáil last March.

More than half of the refugees in this region are living in County Leitrim.

Over 12 and a half thousand children from Ukraine are attending primary and secondary schools nationally.

Svetlana stresses the importance of children keeping up their native language as "language is a living structure, it lives as long as we speak it".

The Government is under pressure to find additional sites to accommodate refugees.

The 23 year old man was from Dunboyne in County Meath

12,000 students have enrolled nationally.