Imagine 46,000 Migrants Arriving in Ireland

REPORTS FROM several news outlets document how Germany expects to rehome 800,000 refugees this year. That is the per capita equivalent of 46,000 migrants arriving in Ireland. Germany is responding in a measured way to the outpouring of people streaming from civil war in Syria, ISIS purges in North Africa and clan hostilities in West Africa. In a poignant piece for The Sunday Business Post, Catherina O’Mahony shares a story from a refugee hostel in Hannover where a six-month-old Ghanaian baby named Angela Merkel lives. The little girl’s mother, Ophelya Ade, named her daughter after the German chancellor in gratitude for the care she and her daughter have received in Germany. I wonder if Ireland will ever see little boys with sub-Saharan complexions named Enda Kenny next year. After all, Ireland have committed to taking 520 people from Syria this year. I will keep looking at the birth register and report back. [Sent from Outlook Mail for Windows 10 on Lumia to Typepad publishing services.]