Juncker: ‘There is a reason number of O'Neills and Murphys in the US exceeds those in Ireland’

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has set out plans to resettle around 160,000 migrants from Italy, Greece and Hungary around the continent.

In a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg Mr Juncker called for solidarity from the EU’s 28 member states in responding to the influx of refugees from Syria and Libya, telling MEPs: “It is not time to take fright, it is time for humanity and human dignity.”