Fergus Finlay: Let’s stop the ‘othering’ and give everyone the chance to belong

People who have been discriminated against for years are being encouraged to march and demand discrimination against others

Protests against the housing of refugees in Ballymun are missing the point. The housing crisis has not been caused by asylum seekers. Picture: Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie

People are being branded. They’re being turned from what they are into something else. They’re being changed.

These are people who, when they lived in their own countries, we saw as victims of oppression, or injustice, or poverty.