Right across the Government, everyone knew Mount Street was becoming a bigger problem every day. Local businesses and residents were threatening legal action against the State if the expanding asylum-seeker ‘tent city’ in the middle of Dublin was not dealt with.
What was she thinking? Justice Minister Helen McEntee is no fool, and when she startled the Oireachtas Justice Committee by blurting out that 80pc of asylum-seekers enter the Republic from the North, she would have felt the ground shifting under her feet.
Picture the scene two Gardai in a small boat, with two pairs of binoculars and two lunchboxes with their pieces, peering out over the dark waves. One saying to the other: “The border must be around here somewhere.”
Picture the scene two Gardai in a small boat, with two pairs of binoculars and two lunchboxes with their pieces, peering out over the dark waves. One saying to the other: “The border must be around here somewhere.”