I’m a first-generation immigrant. Fortunately, as of last year, I’m a Lawful Permanent Resident of the United States of America. I’m lucky :) I don’t look like what the media frames an immigrant to be like. I’ve white skin, I speak English fluently, and I sort of fit the…

I read some eejit on boards.ie or somesuch the other day, yelling about how Dublin’s heroin addicts needed to be rounded up and thrown into The ‘Joy — into prison. So long as they were out of sight.

In January, when my mother was dying in Beaumont Hospital, I walked out one night, having spent the day and night in the stroke…