Irish Examiner view: Irish welcome for refugees warms hearts

100 days later

Brothers Emran, 8,  Arafat, 10,  and   Abas Faizi, 14, and their parents Nooria and Mohammed Arif Faizi fled their home in Kabul to come to Cork. Children from local families welcome the boys and their parents to Ballinora. Included are Josh Roxburgh, Louis McCoy, Harry McCoy, and sisters Zoe and Mia Roxburgh with a welcome banner/poster.

In the 100 days this week since the US, preceded by the British, pulled out of Afghanistan and the Taliban resumed control, much has changed for the ordinary citizens of that country.

The primacy of sharia law has been reasserted; education has been segregated; women have been excluded from employment, from sport and from government; vigilante revenge has taken place; and the opium industry has expanded.