Ireland’s welcome doesn’t extend to all

Some moments give pause for thought. One such moment was captured in the photograph of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month old daughter Valeria. Both are lying dead on the banks of the Rio Grande — the river that separates the USA from Mexico — two more statistics in the great movement of people that currently represents global migration.

The detail of the little girl’s arm inside her father’s shirt, clinging on in death as she had in life, was particularly devastating. Two more statistics whose dream of a better life was exploded within shouting distance of the Promised Land.