‘It’s a place where a hello can heal you’: how a tiny village embraced an influx of asylum seekers

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‘It’s a place where a hello can heal you’: how a tiny village embraced an influx of asylum seekers

Driving west on R314 in Co Mayo, out beyond Ballina and Killala, you pass through Coillte forests that open on to fields stamped with fairy forts and framed with dry-stone walls. You will see sheep and cows, and you might catch a glimpse of a fox, a badger, a stoat or a stag.