The strong Vietnamese community in the Republic of Ireland has united and helped each other in daily life and toward the homeland to preserve national characters.

This was the reported content of the meeting between the Vietnamese Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Nguyen Van Thao and the overseas Vietnamese community, after a working visit to Dublin from March 24th-27th.

He also affirmed that the Vietnamese representative agencies would make all efforts to help the community, especially in protecting their legal rights and interests when appropriate.

At the meeting, the head of the Vietnamese community said that in the early 1970s, there were only more than 200 Vietnamese in Ireland. So far, the figure is about 4,000. Vietnamese people there mainly earn living by opening restaurants. They have a stable life with the following generation becoming doctors and engineers

During the working visit to Ireland, staff of the Vietnamese Embassy in London guided the overseas Vietnamese in procedures relating to citizen protection and visa-free status.

In addition, the latest Vietnamese teaching materials were quickly handed over to the communities in their efforts to preserve the native language for generations born and brought up in Ireland./.

( VNF )