Joyce Fegan: Protests about refugees ring hauntingly hollow

For more than 20 years the vast majority of us turned a blind eye to the plight of thousands upon thousands of people in our direct provision system, to pick up megaphones of protest two decades later and call it free speech is a pot calling the kettle black

There are currently 88 men living in tents in Clare in sub-zero temperatures. Picture: David Raleigh

I walk out my front door and there is no visible unrest, no obvious division, and no sign of discord. 

There are parents racing kids to school on foot, younger siblings traipsing downwind.