Elaine Loughlin: Reaping rewards of political inaction on migration
Successive governments have treated immigration, an issue that has dominated discussions in Brussels for years, as a problem that would never get as far as our little outcrop on the periphery of the continent
The Government cannot disregard asylum seekers now they are in plain sight. Picture: Sam Boal
Migration has been top of the agenda at EU level for a decade, so having to resort to fencing off parts of Dublin should never have happened.
Successive governments have treated immigration, an issue that has dominated discussions in Brussels for many years, as a problem that would never get as far as our little outcrop on the periphery of the continent.
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