Irish Examiner view: Ireland has a stake in easing the migrant crisis 

Solution must start with the defeat of gangsterdom

People take part in a protest outside the Home Office in Westminster, London, demanding an end to deaths in the Channel. Picture: James Manning/PA Wire

In a Booker longlisted novel From a Low and Quiet Sea, Irish writer Donal Ryan recounts the story of a Syrian doctor, Farouk, who decides to flee his homeland with his family after local fundamentalists butcher a small boy.

He takes to sea, with his wife and daughter, under the guidance of human traffickers. The result is a catastrophe, but Farouk eventually makes it to Ireland and a new future.