We have lost humanity in treatment of the refugees

THE behaviour in Clare this week was shameful. We have lost our humanity. 

- SIOBHAN O’CONNOR

We’re no longer a progressive country if we cannot welcome those seeking asylum here.

A protest at the Magowna House Hotel in Inch, consisting of a handful of cones blocking the entrance with people ‘standing guard’, made me feel ashamed to be Irish.

Migrant support groups rightly reacted in horror after protestors boarded a bus carrying refugees and proceeded to carry out a headcount.

What made it even worse was the fact that the protestors filmed the men on the bus. Scenes of asylum seekers carrying one little rucksack – containing their only possessions – en route back to Dublin would make even the hardest hearts crumble.

Now they face sleeping on the streets in a tent which carries its own risks, as was borne out last weekend in Sandwith Street.