The spectacle of the Minister for Justice, Jim O’Callaghan, claiming that the numbers of asylum seekers in Ireland risks “a breakdown in social cohesion” is a dispiriting one.
That it has contributed – as part of O’Callaghan’s wider musings on migrants – to Miriam Lord’s decision to give him her “Politician of the Year” award in The Irish Times offers vivid insight to the shift (in framing at least) in how so many of the political elite have been influenced by relentless anti-immigrant campaigning.
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