Irish families will have to play their part and open their homes to refugees fleeing Ukraine, Timmy Dooley has said, following a brief visit to the war-torn country.
The Fianna Fail senator and MEP Billy Kelleher travelled to the Ukrainian city of Lviv for talks with political leaders.
Mr Dooley, the vice president of the EU Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), travelled 100 kilometres from the Polish border into Ukraine on Sunday.
