Attack on asylum hotel: Small voices speak loudly

Expressions of grand, unwavering hatred, like the war in Syrian or the war on Yemen; or another random, murderous car bomb in Kabul, or yet another caste-driven rape and murder of a child in India, inevitably provoke a mixture of emotions.

Incomprehension and horror make us recoil, but those feelings are mitigated, at least from an Irish perspective, by geography and the remoteness of those tragedies from our comfortable world.