Even as rockets rain down, long-term Irish in the UAE say they feel protected

A woman jogs along a main street in downtown Dubai yesterday and, inset, Patricia Frawley and Eithne Treanor are two Irish women now resident in Dubai
Thousands of people may be scrambling to get out of the Middle East, but for a small and tight-knit community of well-established Irish business expats in Dubai, it is a different story.
Over the past two decades, they have made good lives for themselves, and missiles or not, they are going nowhere.