Ellen Coyne: Welcome to caring Ireland – a two-tier immigration system that treats white Europeans better than everyone else
Tents used by homeless asylum seekers at Grattan Court, Mount Street, Dublin. Photo: Collins — © Collins Photos
Ellen Coyne
In big cities and small towns, in tourist gold mines and economic dust bowls, in rich places and in poor places, Irish people have protested against refugees.
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