A Leitrim school principal says schools seem to be coping well so far with the extra Ukrainian children who've had to flee the country with their mothers in the last weeks.
Alan Kelly who's Principal at Scoil Mhuire Naofa in Carrigallen says one of the biggest challenges has been in terms of not knowing in advance how many pupils might arrive at the school to enrol over recent months.
CSO figures released this week show Leitrim as accommodating over 1000 Ukrainian nationals, representing half of those who have come to the Shannonside region so far.
The Carrigallen school principal says the Department of Education has put some good systems in place to help support the students, but there are still issues with things like language and making things understood on both sides.
Speaking on the Let's Talk show today Alan Kelly says the pace of pupils arriving over the last few months has increased since last year but things are settling to an even keel now.
'We had a number arrive towards the end of May, start of June, and then we would have had a number arrive over the course of September October, and I suppose that's where some of the challenges initially started.
We weren't sure who many pupils were coming , so on any given morning we could have had two or three families looking to enrol.
It's going well now , as we're on the 17th of November ,y'know we feel as a school here, where we are, that things are quite settled at the moment.'
