Sir, - This year Ireland will launch the Jenny Johnson, a replica of a famine ship, to commemorate the emigrants who were forced to flee an economic famine in Ireland.
This week the Irish government has launched the idea of "flotels" to house immigrants in the ports of Dublin, Cork, Waterford and perhaps elsewhere. Such a bitter irony. How can a country with such a bitter past create such a cynical and callous present? - Yours, etc.,
Bernadette Scully, Mission Street, San Francisco, USA.