Aisling Maloney
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first heard Aug 2026
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Yeah, so Jim O'Callaghan called an emergency meeting yesterday under kind of like a crisis mechanism around this issue.
And there's going to be further meetings this week as well under, I suppose, as you said, the guise of us having the presidency of the Council of the European Union.
And I suppose like it's a it's a facilitator role.
It's not like Jim O'Callaghan will be.
front and centre in any of this or the Taoiseach, it is to facilitate these crisis discussions, to bring together the European leaders, justice ministers and the like to make sure, I suppose, they're all speaking or at least and maybe singing off similar hymn sheets, although it seems that this
particular crisis has developed into a crisis within Europe in terms of different countries.
Like you see there, George Maloney from Italy suspending the Schengen, which is, I suppose, while it doesn't cover all of the countries of the EU, it is kind of one of the big reasons the EU exists in terms of peace, freedom of movement.
And so, again, you can see, you know, the whole European Peace Project, which is what the European Union does.
started out as has evolved, shifted and is pushed in a new geopolitical light in the world with this change in migration.
We did see similar issues, I suppose, in 2015 with mass migration due to obviously conflicts in the Middle East.
And I suppose very interestingly, as Shona just laid out there as well, all of those tensions, the U.S.,
within Europe, within Africa, with Morocco and how they're interacting with Spain.
And then also, you know, bad actors in terms of social media messages spreading on TikTok about how these migrants would have been able to do this, to go across to Soweto.
And that kind of took off on TikTok in the Sunday Times today.
Katie Gatins has a great report, really in detail, outlaying all of those different tensions and particularly about several people interviewed by her said they'd seen videos on TikTok and Instagram about crossing into Sueta, being told and misled online broadly about what they could expect and how they could do it.
I think when you mention the photos and the pictures and the videos, I actually think most Irish people
have sympathy and they have our empathy sympathy for these people and they look at that really graphic photo you mentioned there and they
They sympathise or at least they feel very sorry for that situation.
And I don't think the majority of people immediately think of the worst or the negative in terms of what would happen if those people came to Ireland.
But unfortunately, with social media, you have the people who do pick up those negative opinions and they are so roundly amplified and they are amplified not by humans in many contexts, they're amplified by
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