Opinion

Migration is now the primary battleground for this year’s elections

Ireland has become ‘anti-any-more’ migration and this demands more than on-the-hoof responses from a struggling government

Protesters at the Racket Hall hotel in Roscrea, Co Tipperary who are opposed to plans to house asylum seeker in the hotel RollingNews

Albert Reynolds, on leaving office, lamented that it was “the little things that trip you up”. But it’s the suddenly mammoth issue of immigration that is threatening to be the rock on which the coalition runs aground.

In a matter of weeks, immigration has joined housing as a key concern of voters in middle Ireland. It would be unfair to say Ireland has gone ‘anti-immigrant’ (anecdotally, refugees report being treated courteously and kindly on an ...