Ellen Coyne: Refugee eyesores? We seem to be losing sight of the fact people are at the centre of this crisis

Any traces of the migrants who had camped on Mount Street get washed away. Photo: PA

Ellen Coyne

They’d be better off if they were groceries. How could we forget those objections from the dismayed politicians kept awake at night over fears that milk and flour would be denied safe passage over the Border in a post-Brexit world?

For a while there, it seemed as though sausages were going to be offered protected status. There has been substantially less compassion shown for the latest issue to cross the Border. This time, it’s just people.