View from outside western bubble

AS the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox must carry considerable weight when he presents us with a far different perspective of current world trends than that of established commentators and politicians in the developed world (Irish Examiner, January 2).

However, his address is not without flaws. Irish immigration to Britain, for

instance, is not a phenomenon confined to the last 50 years, as he suggests, for it was Irish labour that not only built Britain’s motorways, but also its canals and railways before that.