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“3 large IPAS centres already operating in Roscrea”
‘Falling numbers and ageing communities’
Roscrea
Mattie McGrath: “The thought that [asylum seekers] all get automatic medical cards is just a pure joke. It sticks in the craw of…all the other countless patients that are striving and begging to get a medical card, and they can’t.”
Feel unsafe
‘People of Roscrea need fair play and respect’
This is an argument that might wash in the opinion pages of the Irish Times. I am unconvinced that it will persuade many of the locals in Roscrea, or elsewhere.
‘Massive crowd’
A church that speaks out on Christian doctrine only when that doctrine happens to coincidentally serve the political needs of the state is, in this writer’s estimation, barely worthy of the name.
“For Roderic O’Gorman to send down heavy-handed men to push people and shove women and children is totally wrong…what happened could have been avoided”: Roscrea locals discuss asylum centre controversy.
Our political class now appears to be in such a desperate state of panic that the apparent priority here was not to think matters through, but to rush the story into print.
Conflicting messages
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