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Pakistani ambassador Sardar Shuja Alam with Amanullah de Sondy.

Conversation topics over coffee can range from subject to subject when a University College Cork (UCC) religious studies scholar invites Cork City councillors for a chat.

Amanullah De Sondy, UCC's senior lecturer in contemporary Islam, offered to meet the politicians to discuss diversity and religious plurality in Ireland, after a Cork Cty councillor published a misleading social-media post about refugees fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan.