Mick Clifford: We are paying the cost of not having invested in infrastructure

The abrupt arrival of refugees into communities has sparked concerns, writes Mick Clifford

East Wall is the latest flashpoint in what is growing unease about the policy of housing asylum seekers and refugees across the country. Picture: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

The 1913 lock-out got an airing. 

So did the IRA’s border campaign of 1956. History was invoked to show that the local community would live up to the best traditions of working-class resistance when pitted against major power.