Irish response to migrant crisis is ‘shameful’

Ireland’s response to the refugee crisis has been called shameful after just 331 people were given sanctuary here in the past year.

Just one of the new arrivals was an unaccompanied child despite a Government pledge in September last year that children travelling alone would be given a special place here.

There are concerns Ireland is set for international humiliation when the country co-chairs the first ever UN Summit on Refugees and Migration in New York this month at a time when our own contribution to tackling the problem is so poor.