Eric is Irish but faces an unintended consequence of public policy

Eris Zhi Ying Xue and I have a couple of things in common, it transpires. 

We were both born in Dublin and spent our entire childhoods there. We both started our education in the same school, St Cronan’s in Bray.

Both of us speak English as our first language, and neither of us has ever known any home except Ireland.