Áine Ní Chonaill: “Anyone who abuses the asylum system, just as a way to get to the West, and it is massively abused, is an invader of our country.”
Joe Duffy: “An invader?”
Ní Chonaill: “Anyone who barges their way into your country, against your will…”
Duffy: “No it’s not my, your country. I mean whose country is it?”
Ní Chonaill: “This is the country of Irish people. Do you think I’m making some exception for yourself?”
Duffy: “Yeah we don’t own it, -sigh-.”
Ní Chonaill: “I beg your pardon?”
Duffy: “We don’t own the country, when you say ‘your country’.”
Ní Chonaill: “We most certainly do own our country. If you think we don’t own our own country, Joe, you’ve got a very big problem.”
Duffy: “Maybe I have. They’re invaders?”
Ní Chonaill: “Anyone who is an illegal immigrant, ‘i’ ‘double l’, illegal, or I add on an asylum abuser is such a person.”
Duffy: “OK. What is the purpose of this invasion?”
Ní Chonaill: “To get to live in the West.”
Duffy: “Yeah, and do they want to rob anything off you or me or pillage or rape or…”
Ní Chonaill: “Well, excuse me, they want to rob from…”
Duffy: “Iinvaders usually come because they want to rob, pillage, rape, overthrow…”
Ní Chonaill: “I beg…If you want to use that kind of language, go right ahead.”
Duffy: “But what do invaders do?”
Ní Chonaill: “Invaders are people who say, effectively, I’m coming into your country whether you like it or not. And I’m staying here.”
Duffy: “To do what? To do what?”
Ní Chonaill: “To be here.”
Duffy: “In your house?”
Ní Chonaill: “In our country.”
Duffy: “In your house?”
Ní Chonaill: “In our country which is our communal home. Are you trying to say that the country doesn’t have the right to say who comes into the country?”
Duffy: “Of course it does, of course it does.”
Ní Chonaill: “And sure that’s all I’m talking about.”
