
Columba O’Hare redaktor strony Newry.ie oddaje nam swoją szpaltę, za co serdecznie dziękujemy.
Kontakt z nami : newryie.polskastrona@gmail.com
WWW.NEWRY.IE/POLSKA-STRONA
I would like to welcome this initiative by Newry.ie for its plan to create a Polish page devoted to news, articles and matters of interest to the large Polish community living in Newry and throughout Northern Ireland.
I congratulate Columba O’Hare for this much welcome development on its online local newspaper and also Artur Kmiecik who has been involved in this development.
The Polish community is now well established since they started to come here from 2004 onwards. Families have grown up and are attending our local schools and colleges and Polish workers are making an extremely important contribution to the economy of Northern Ireland. Life has not been easy with its many challenges such as language and culture, integrating into the local society. They now have a new challenge brought about by Brexit which requires them and their children born here to register with the Home Office for ‘’Settled Status’’ before the end of June this year. Hopefully the vast majority will be successful and will remain here, however some will not qualify and will be asked to leave Northern Ireland.
This potentially will have damaging ramifications for our local economy and the many organisations that they have become part of.
I offer my best wishes to this new venture and hope that providing a platform giving a voice to the Polish community will be a great success.
Address is www.newry.ie/polska-strona
Jerome Mullen GCM OBE
Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland


