A chara, - After the 1956 uprising in Hungary, Ireland complied with an international request to receive an intake of refugees and we housed about 1,000 in a transit camp in an outer suburb of Limerick adjacent to a working class estate named Killeely. After six months a steady trickle to England and back to Hungary began and within two years the camp had voluntarily emptied. Why?
We treated them in the same way as we treated our own dependency culture. No better and no differently. The outward concern of the PDs for this present wave of welfare immigrants shows their continuing inability to listen to the vox pop and, in my opinion, will accelerate their descent into political oblivion as Fianna Fail gets ready for another coalition partner. - Yours, etc., M. MacCoisdealbh,
Goatstown, Dublin 14.