Suzanne Harrington: Who or what actually is ‘our own’?

We are living in late-stage capitalism, which sounds a lot like stage four cancer. There is no stage five.

Who or what actually is ‘our own’?

When four Dublin friends who met at their kids’ nursery raise €25,000 to pay rent for a Syrian family — mum, dad, two small kids — for two years, it generates over a thousand comments on Facebook. The comments — well done, nice work, good on you etc — quickly morph into a chorus of ‘what about our own’.