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Tue 06 Jun 2007Group urges welcoming refugees into communityA Limerick-based support organisation for refugees and asylum seekers has called for greater efforts to be made in establishing direct relationships between asylum seekers, refugees and their local communities.Doras Luimní said that refugees and asylum seekers were increasingly suffering from alienation and depression because of minimal integration with the local people of Limerick and surrounding areas.