Ask any tourist to Ireland what they most love about the Emerald Isle and at least one of their answers is likely to be either the céad míle fáilte they received, or the greenery. Such has been my experience in chatting with enthusiastic Americans, anyway. It’s a shame, then, that we seem to be headed towards replacing 100,000 welcomes with 100,000 asylum centres – and taking a swing at our commitment to the environment too as we do so.
I exaggerate for effect of course, but only in part. While we may eventually have enormous asylum camps rather than 100,000 centres, the Government does seem fixated on bulldozing through asylum centres to the point where vital services to Irish people are also being swept aside.
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