The queue people once waited for hours in for the immigration office has been abolished, replaced with an online appointment system that requires weeks of waiting.
There is no word for someone who’s not white Irish who settles here, which marks them as part of the community of Ireland. Does that mean they’ll never feel at home?
It’s an annual tradition now: the Taoiseach goes to Washington to ask Obama to help undocumented Irish in America. And in Dublin, there are calls for the Taoiseach to help undocumented people here too.
Nasir Jamal, chief reporter for the newspaper Dawn, gives the view from Pakistan on why many of his countrymen and women are leaving to chase their dreams in Europe.
Private companies have made millions from direct-provision centres for “old” refugees already in Ireland, and someone’s likely to make huge profits from “new” Syrian refugees too, when they arrive.
