Recently, I was chatting to a fellow parent on the walk home from the school gate. He moved to Ireland with his wife and child a few years ago to take up work, but many of his university classmates had moved to larger countries, in particular the USA. The topic of safety came up and, in the aftermath of the Uvalde shooting, I asked him how his US-based friends were managing. It turns out a number of them had been in touch with him about moving to Ireland, given their line of work and what Ireland – and Dublin in…

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