Following her reported comments in Trinity College on November 17, it would seem that Mary Robinson expects the Irish public to disregard their instincts; to suspend their critical faculties; to erect a Chinese wall segregating the mass migration of undocumented and unidentifiable random strangers into Ireland from the threat of lethal terrorism in Europe; and to regard political promises made in their name, but without any consultation with them, as binding, not to be overshadowed by unfolding circumstances of any gravity.
