Facebook post and hysteria led to Roma children's removal
State and society face searching questions over our relationship with migrants

Roma parents Loreda and Iancu with their two children Regina and Iancu junior (2), who was taken into care earlier this week.
It started with an anonymous message to TV3’s Paul Connolly Investigates web page last Monday containing a disturbing allegation: a Roma family appeared to have a blonde-haired, blue-eyed seven-year-old girl who couldn’t possibly be theirs.
Within hours, there was another allegation. This time a member of the public in the midlands alerted gardaí to a two-year-old boy with fair hair living with a Roma family.