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Editorial: Testing period ahead as government continues to struggle with migrant crisis

Our Red C opinion poll findings show clearly a change in the public mood from support to increasing anger and frustration

A group of homeless refugees have pitched tents outside the International Protection Office on Mount Street. Picture: Fergal Phillips

So much of our national history has been doused in economic tragedy. Irish men, women and children have left these shores in their millions to seek a better life, and they have not done so by choice.

The scars of forced emigration have faded in recent times, but we as a people cannot forget our past when confronted with the relatively new challenge of inward migration into Ireland.

It occurred, as we know, during the ...