Now we’re set to intern immigrants and lock children up with criminals

IS it OK for us to introduce internment without trial in Ireland? Of course, we would seek to ensure that the only people interned were black people. Would that make it OK?

And is it OK that we are now pushing ahead with the building of the largest prison we’ve ever had, and have now decided to lock children up there as well as adults? They’d be teenagers, of course, and they’d all come from pretty tough backgrounds. Would that make it OK?

The answer to all those questions is no. It’s not OK. It doesn’t even make it OK if we do all those things while saying as little as we can about them. But apparently, we’re going to do them anyway.