Between May 20-21, 2022, the Consular Section team will travel to Limerick City to provide consular services and assistance to Romanian citizens in the area.

Through this initiative, the Romanian Embassy wishes to meet the needs of Romanian citizens in the South, West and Center of Ireland, as close as possible to them.

Although there are no restrictions, it is estimated that the reference area includes Romanian citizens in the counties and cities of Cork, Carlow, Clare, Galway, Kerry, Laois, Offaly, Tipperary or any area with easier access to Limerick than to Dublin.

TIME SCHEDULE:
• Friday, May 20, 2022, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m;
• Saturday, May 21, 2022, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Location: Absolute Hotel, Sir Harry's Mall, V94 WP52

You can request an appointment EXCLUSIVELY online at the e-mail address limerick.consulat@gmail.com, no later than May 1, 2022, at 17:00.

The message you are requesting to schedule must contain the following:
• Name and Surname;
• Consular service requested;
• Phone number where you can be contacted;

Each applicant will receive back by email information on the date and time of the appointment.

With the support of Eiro.

For further information please visit https://dublin.mae.ro/local-news/2042 

April 3, 2022

Romanians are considered to be the largest invisible community in Ireland!

The Population Census will take place in Ireland on Sunday, April 3, 2022.

The census will count all those present in Ireland that night.

The information will be used ONLY for statistical purposes and is confidential!  These turn into numbers!

It is important for the Romanian community's participation in this process:

The results of the Census are important for the Irish state in order to plan future services at community, local and national level, to support Romanian citizens in the systems:

•  health (information, services, GP);
• education (Romanian language courses and their inclusion in Irish school curricula);
• transport;
• housing (support, support from local authorities).

 It is important to know OFFICIALLY how many Romanians we are in Ireland, not only for the Irish authorities, but also for the Romanian state, in order to:

• allocate human and financial resources to the Dublin Consular Section, for the best possible quality of consular and representation services;
• the relocation of the Consular Section in a space that corresponds to the real needs of the Romanian community in Ireland, which is currently estimated at over 120,000 Romanian citizens.

The figure of 30,000 Romanians, from the 2016 Census, declared by the C.S.O.  (The Central Statistics Office) is no longer relevant.

 Let's mobilize and not stay invisible.  Let's show that our presence in Ireland matters!

 If you need help filling out the form, feel free to contact us info@eiro.ie

You can access more information in Romanian here: https://www.census.ie/help-with-your-form/other-languages/romanian/

Eiro supports humanitarian efforts to help refugees and civilians in Ukraine. We are collecting for the Red Cross in Ukraine.

All financial donations will be sent to Red Cross International (for Ukraine).

EiRo account details:
IBAN: IE36AIBK93547624498026
BIC: AIBKIE2D

Photo credit: TheHill.com

As the Romanian Embassy in Dublin always strives to meet the needs of Romanian citizens in Ireland, especially those that live at a greater distance from the headquarters of the Consular Section of the Romanian Embassy in Dublin, they initiated the process of establishing itinerant consulates in Ireland, outside of Dublin city, during 2022.

The Embassy is launching a public consultation on the locations in which these traveling consulates could be organized.

Until January 12, 2022, comments and suggestions can be sent by email to: dublin.consul@mae.ro with proposed locations, details of the consular services needed, but also the optimal period when these services could be provided closer to you.

The Embassy will analyse all these proposals and, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bucharest, will announce in good time the locations and the period / periods in which the traveling consulates will be organized.

EIRO has proposed Limerick City for its wide capture area to be used as a potential location for these services. 

For more info please visit the official announcement.

To celebrate the National Day of Romania a reception will be organised by the Romanian Embassy in Dublin on November 30th 2021 at Set Theatre in Kilkenny followed by a live jazz and traditional Irish music concert.

On December 1st, eiro members invite all these who want to celebrate the National Day of Romania and the Grate Union for a dinner, chat and wine at the Tuscany Restaurant in Castletroy - Limerick at 5pm. Confirmations by email to info@eiro.ie are required no later than 4pm on December 1st.

Saint Patrick’s day is, without any doubt, the quintessential celebration of the Irish culture, which according to many sources has been celebrated in Ireland for more than a millennium.

Today, March 17th is in the consciousness of people across the globe, the much awaited day of parades, celebrations, shamrocks and anything green that act as reminders of St. Patrick’s legacy, the Patron Saint of Ireland. 

This year, once again, his legacy will continue to be celebrated, albeit in a more reflective way due to the unprecedented times we live in 2021. The vibrant and beautiful parades, the lively atmosphere of people, young and old, will be replaced by reminiscent repartees of how this day used to be, a day which we’re all hoping to celebrate again, just like before, in the not so distant future.
 
Until then however, we’re taking the time to pause to take a look back and reminisce upon the story of the man which reads very much like an immigrant’s story.

St.Patrick’s name is synonymous with the man who became an unlikely hero in Ireland, a shy boy raised in Britain, who after being captured by pirates at the age of 16, in 405 A.D, was brought to Ireland and sold into slavery. It was during his eight years of captivity that he turned to his Christian faith which, up until then, didn’t matter to him. Ireland back then, was a land of pagans and one day, after a dream he had, he went back to Britain only to return to Ireland later, following God’s calling. For almost thirty years of evangelical work, he guided the Irish pagans to Christianity and he was responsible for Ireland’s becoming one of the most Christian nations of Europe. There’s no wonder that to this day, he continues to be called the “The Apostle of the Irish”. 

There are many legends which surround his life. For example, it is believed that he used a shamrock to teach the Holy Trinity to the pagans and the pagans were considered to be the metaphorical snakes that he rid Ireland of, the argument being that snakes couldn’t have possibly existed in Ireland given its climate. Now, the shamrock is the official flower of Ireland and its green colour is associated with the Irish culture.

His story does indeed read like an immigrant’s story, as Ireland became his home and he befriended the locals, in whose eyes he was no doubt the foreigner initially. His legacy continues to this day as a man of faith who was tried and tested through slavery and exile. 

May we continue to celebrate this legacy just like we used to all over the world, with parades, with the young and old and most importantly, with all things green!!!

Happy St.Patrick's Day from all of us at eiro!

How wonderful it is to have more reasons to celebrate this month! The Romanian people have a double reason in this respect, as March 8th marks not only Mother’s Day but also International Women’s Day.

Although many countries around the world celebrate Mother’s Day on various days, there are a little over twenty countries which celebrate this special day on March 8th, with countries like Romania, Russia, Bulgaria, Moldova and Belarus being just a few of them.

On this special day, we honour our mother traditionally with flowers, tokens of appreciation and beautiful expressions of love, be they in person, in writing or by phone if they’re not near.

It is a well known fact that it’d be an impossible endeavour to express in words the love we feel for our mothers or the contribution that they have made to our lives, nor it could be celebrated on one specific day, only once a year. She has given and shaped our life. She has guided us with love and wisdom. She has incessantly nurtured us with unconditional love. She is an intrinsic part of us.

In our memories of her, we find the warmth of the hands we used to hold as children, the loving look of her kind eyes and the safe, protective presence of abundant love which we still seek as adults, just to regain our much needed balance.

And most of all, a Mother is so much more…

Happy Mother’s Day!  

On a different yet similar note, International Women’s Day, celebrates ALL women, not just the mothers. March 8th is the day when attention is drawn to cultural, economic and socio-political issues that have impacted and continue to impact on women’s lives.
The roots of this important day can be traced to over a century ago, when the First World War started. In 1914, March 8th marked a day of protests of women against war, with women rallying together expressing international solidarity. There’s no surprise that nowadays, parades and protests still take place around the world in support of women’s rights.

It was also on this day, in 1975, when the United Nations highlighted the need to celebrate the ordinary women, who played an extraordinary role in the history of women’s rights, thanks to their acts of courage and sheer determination.

With this thought in mind, let’s start celebrate the mothers and the women in our lives, and those before us who have made such outstanding contributions to the world we now live in!

Wishing you all a Happy International Women’s day!

Spring is here at long last with its longer daylight, blossoming flowers, sunnier days and renewed sense of hope! We hope our email finds you and your dear ones in great health and wonderful high spirits that the month of March always brings, filling our hearts with love and joy.

For this reason, the EIRO team is all too excited about the impending arrival of Martisor, our Romanian traditional harbinger of spring. We’re hoping that our Martisor e-card will put a smile on your faces and brighten up your day!

As we are constantly growing and developing new projects, we wish to take this opportunity to encourage you to join our vibrant and dedicated team, who works tirelessly towards improving the cultural and business links between Romania and Ireland, as well as promoting the Romanian culture and its traditions.

Although the Covid 19 pandemic has negatively impacted on the quality of our social interactions and the planning of events, we still have managed to continue our social interactions and active involvement in various projects which strengthened our community spirit and expanded our knowledge.

As you have probably seen on our various social media platforms, we celebrated, albeit in a distanced way, the Romanian National Day on the 1st of December in People’s Park Limerick, we continued to hold Zoom meetings on a regular basis and Santa found a way of turning up as well!!!

Most notably however, is our continuous engagement with the Sanctuary with Psychology project of University of Limerick,, headspeared by our Dr. Anca Minescu. The project not only offered us intercultural training, but it has enabled wonderful intercultural dialogues between members of various ethnic backgrounds. It has enhanced our understanding of different cultural practices and identities, and above all, it has certainly expanded our knowledge of the differences and the similarities between the Romanian people and members of different ethnic communities.

We are hopeful that this year we will get to resume our cultural events and especially our most loved social gatherings so that we can hug each other again and share laughter!

Come and join us! :) 

Warmest regards and best wishes!

O primăvară cât mai frumoasă!

A meeting has taken place on Friday 25 of September 2020 with Dr. Loïc Guyon, Honorary Consul of France in the Mid-West of Ireland to discuss opportunities to foster European solidarity, intercultural dialogue and economic development between Irish, French, Romanian and other EU communities. 

We are delighted to have joined on March 12th 2020 the Limerick Public Participation Network family of community and voluntary organisations.

We look forward to making our contribution to the development of the local community in partnership with all organisations and with Limerick City and County Council.

Our first attendance to the Limerick PPN meeting was on 16th of April 2020 when our colleague Daniel Nedelcu attended the meeting on Community CCTV and Broadband Roll-out held by the PPN using Zoom.