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Sick and pregnant Ukrainian refugees in North and West Clare have been forced to miss medical appointments in recent weeks because of a lack of transport, since the Government cut their travel passes this September. According to Eoin Tynan-O’Mahony, Chair of the Clare Immigrant Support Centre, the cut of the travel pass to sick Ukrainian refugees is having a negative impact on some of the most vulnerable people in Clare today. Indeed, he says that one Ukrainian cancer patient had to be accompanied by her social welfare officer for treatment, because she had no other way of making the appointment. “Most of the Ukrainians will work if they can and if they earn more than €125 a week they lose any payment. They recognise that they should be able to support themselves if they can,” said Eoin. “But the groups who are badly affected by this are older people and single mothers, and there are a lot of them. There …
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