The consensus among the Irish was that, if the foreigners didn’t all suddenly disappear come the economic downturn, the Irish would somehow do things differently and avoid all the multitude of problems laid upon every other nation that has had mass immigration foisted upon its people.
‘It’s not a multicultural policy, it’s an integrationist policy’. No, ‘it’s not an integrationist policy, it’s an assimilationist policy’, the Minister for (dis)Integration would proclaim, tripping himself up each...