Politics of Grealish and Collins cannot be allowed to extinguish our céad míle fáilte

The comments about the accommodation of asylum seekers made this week by independent TDs Noel Grealish (Galway West) and Michael Collins (Cork South West) were spectacularly ignorant.

Grealish’s depiction of “genuine refugees” as Syrian Christians persecuted by IS is not only inaccurate because nearly all of our Syrian refugees are Muslims, it is bigoted in pitting mythical Christians against Muslim aggressors.