I’m lucky. I’m Irish. I’m safe — but I’m ashamed.
This week I saw the same system frighten and humiliate her two children as they watched their mother and saw them give away their toys to friends they probably would never see again.
This week I saw the system take a woman and her daughters under its 'care' and neglect to offer them any food or drink for eight hours as they were whisked away and abandoned 300 miles away in Dublin, in a grotty asylum seekers' hostel/detention centre at midnight, alone and frightened, with no idea what was to happen the following day at the hands of the Irish Immigration Service.
