Irish Examiner view: Laissez-faire attitude sees division now

Housing asylum seekers

The stand-off at Magowna House Hotel in Clare, where locals continue to blockade the road in protest at the hotel being used to house asylum seekers, is a story typical of modern Ireland. Picture: Brendan Gleeson

The stand-off at Magowna House Hotel in Clare, where locals continue to blockade the road in protest at the hotel being used to house asylum seekers, is a story typical of modern Ireland.

It illustrates stress lines associated with our 21st-century country perfectly, but it has also thrown more traditional differences into sharp relief.