We need do more than tweet: Deeds, not words

THAT photo has got be the turning point. The dead toddler on the beach. Three-year-old Alyan Kurdi, lifeless in his little black shoes.

His five-year-old brother Ghalib drowned too, and his mum, but it was the picture of Alyan that must surely be the one that galvanises us. To stop listening to spineless, vote-centric politicians about there not being enough room/houses/money.

Of course there is. We are one of the richest countries in the world, yet the number being bandied about so far — although it looks like this is about to change — is 600 refugees. can take in 600 refugees. Not 60,000 or 6,000, but 600. Imagine if we Irish had been given such a number, arriving in other countries on our coffin ships, half dead and escaping starvation. Sorry, number 601. We’re full. Go and die at sea.