BBC Documentaries

Hotel for Refugees (2017x285)

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Two worlds meet when a small Catholic town in the west of Ireland becomes the new home for hundreds of Muslim Syrian asylum seekers, brought over from refugee camps in Greece. Under an EU refugee relocation scheme, Ireland has accepted up to 4,000 asylum seekers in a single year, but plans to settle several hundred of them in a former luxury hotel in small rural community of Ballaghadereen have divided the town. Some townsfolk believe it is their Catholic duty to extend a charitable hand, while others are anxious about the impact of so many strangers on the town.