He was once playing football in his bare feet in a Kurdish refugee camp, before making a new life in Ireland. A new documentary sees Zak Moradi, an intercounty hurler with Leitrim, return to his homeland and explore what being a refugee means.
There are three big reasons migration is forever: Our economy will continue to need migrants, inward migration is rising secularly over the last decade into Europe thanks to waves of conflict and change, and millions more will be further displaced by climate change in the coming years.
Trying to balance strict border controls with a duty to treat asylum seekers humanely seems nearly impossible with a right-learning parliament. Should they come to power, Sinn Féin will have no choice but to deal with these realities.
Yes, we can pull tents down. Yes, we can talk tough to the UK. But migration will become more pronounced and more complex in the years ahead, and requires a European-wide solution.
What are their economic incentives? What are the institutional questions they pose? Why are independents absorbing the votes of the angry?
Rising temperatures across the world are making many regions uninhabitable, resulting in mass population shifts. Nations must now start to accept immigration as a climate adaptation strategy.
There are growing numbers in rural Ireland with the emigrating instincts a young Séan Donoghue had in Manorhamilton in the 1950s. The test of the emerging Ireland is to provide the services and the opportunities that allow them to remain at home.
I was forced to leave Ireland during the last financial crash. I returned home with no assets, a fractured life, and spiralling rents. Meanwhile, the Generals of this economic war remain the same. I’m out.
The fundamental economics of a country like Ireland is a lot like gravity. You can ignore it for a while, but eventually, it will get you.
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