Irish Examiner view: Ireland must keep migrant workers safe

We should not need another reality check. If Ireland does not want these essential workers, or want to provide a welcome to others, there are plenty of other nations that will

International staff were shaken the Dublin riots, with several harassed on their way home. Picture: Alamy

There will have been times this year when Health Minister Stephen Donnelly may have felt that he has been on the receiving end of sympathy and grace notes being played on the world’s smallest violin.

During a period of acute anxiety about costs, and disagreements about the scope and deployment of the health budget, he has sometimes cut a beleaguered and anxious figure.