Irish Ambassador to Ukraine Therese Healy: ‘Every single Ukrainian person I’ve met has thanked us for helping’

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Few diplomats face a pandemic and a major war during their entire careers, let alone in a single posting, but Therese Healy has no regrets about being the first resident Irish Ambassador to Ukraine. “It’s not a usual posting. You do have to sacrifice some element of normality,” Healy says in the cafe of a hotel that has a bomb shelter in the basement in case air-raid sirens sound, as they still do on most days in Kyiv, despite the city now having powerful western-supplied air-defence systems. “A week ago, we had another missile and drone attack... there were fatalities...