Giving platform to naysayers would have sown division in welcoming town

Bana al-Abed’s account of bombings has attracted wide attention – as well as scepticism

Ireland and Ulster rugby player Trimble travelled to two refugee camps in Tanzania

A year after the boy drowned, those trying to escape war still get little help from Europe

Photograph of three-year-old boy’s body lying at waters edge prompted global outcry

Of the thousands of migrants sheltering on Sicily, many are unaccompanied children

Image of shocked Omran Daqneesh represents reality for millions of children

Hassan, a teacher from Syria, pays €2,000 for a dinghy crossing from Turkey to Greece

Frances Fitzgerald said last year Ireland would take up to 4,000 people under EU plan

Patrick Pearse set out a mystical rationale for Irish nationality. How does his vision stand up in now, and can a nation state compete with the forces of hypercapitalism?

Alleged people-smugglers in Bodrum court over drowning of boy and four others