One of the symptoms of our atomised, fractured communities is that word of mouth doesn't spread as easily, either.

In most towns in Ireland and in the working class white regions of the bigger cities, word will spread like wildfire (so to speak) when a property gets repurposed for refugee housing. But in a community where you don't know or talk to your neighbour, where all the hairdressers and cashiers and taxi drivers are immigrants, even 2nd or 3rd generation, how are you ever going to hear about it, let alone organise against it, when it's also kept off the public record? All by design.

One of the symptoms of our atomised, fractured communities is that word of mouth doesn't spread as easily, either.

In most towns in Ireland and in the working class white regions of the bigger cities, word will spread like wildfire (so to speak) when a property gets repurposed for refugee housing. But in a community where you don't know or talk to your neighbour, where all the hairdressers and cashiers and taxi drivers are immigrants, even 2nd or 3rd generation, how are you ever going to hear about it, let alone organise against it, when it's also kept off the public record too? All by design.