Outrage over how child migrants have been separated from their families at the US border has crossed the Atlantic and put the spotlight firmly on the inadequacies of the system used to detain asylum-seekers in Ireland.
Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald told the party ard fheis her party is here to stay and told Fine Gael and Fianna Fail to "wake up and smell the coffee".
Former President of Ireland and theology academic said she has "no intention whatsoever" of going to confession after voting with the majority of Ireland to change abortion law.
Attitudes have certainly shifted. As the European migrant crisis continues many EU leaders could well be tuning in to Britain's Boris Johnson's thoughts.
Donald Trump’s separation of children from parents is not new. It could have come right out of the British government's treatment of Irish kids during the Great Hunger when half the one million victims were children.
Simon Coveney issued an unprecedented angry statement against US President Donald Trump’s Mexico border policy which is forcibly separating children from their parents.
