Show compassion to immigrants

ÁINE NÍ CHONAILL (Irish Examiner letters, June 14) argues that the Irish taxpayer is being abused by the likes of 20-year-old Nigerian Tude Ominiyi.

His wish to stay in this country on humanitarian grounds is under review and, in the interim, he has been given board and lodging and free education “none of which he was entitled to in any concept of right,” according to Ms Ní Chonaill.

I would like to inform her that I am an Irish taxpayer - and I don’t think that I am being abused. In fact, I have no problem with some of my taxes going towards the support of Tude Ominiyi in his efforts to get the Leaving Cert.