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By Eoghan Murphy · Shannonside · 5 August 2026
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In 2017, the Abbeyfield Hotel in Ballaghaderreen opened as a refugee centre.It’s still an emergency reception and orientation centre for those fleeing war.Last...
In 2017, the Abbeyfield Hotel in Ballaghaderreen opened as a refugee centre.
It's still an emergency reception and orientation centre for those fleeing war.
Our reporter Eoghan Murphy went along to learn more about the centre, nine years after it opened:
Reporting by Eoghan Murphy for Shannonside, funded by the News Reporting Scheme. Republished by News Room under the scheme’s reuse permission.
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