When they come to take your neighbour...

RECENTLY a friend of ours, a young Angolan woman, came to see us in great distress. We have known her since her arrival in Ireland in 2000 as an asylum seeker with a baby daughter.

When they come to take your neighbour...
Tue, 27 Jul, 2004 - 01:00

We have shared her joy and celebration at the births of two further children here in Ireland - a girl and a boy.

Her eldest is now at school in Galway, beginning to speak Irish, learning Irish dancing and becoming imbued with Irish culture.

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