A chara, - The Government is hypocritical. Every time there is a hint of an amnesty for illegal immigrants in America, our politicians grovel to the US government to make representations on behalf of the thousands of Irish illegal immigrants based there.
Meanwhile, back in Dublin our Government instructs that men, women and children are placed on chartered planes in the dead of night to be returned to their supposed country of origin. Some families are divided and the protests of those about to sit their Leaving Certificate examinations are ignored.
This is the Ireland spawned from the excesses of the Celtic tiger. It is stomach-churning stuff and it is not my Ireland. - Is mise,
EF FANNING, Churchtown, Dublin 14.