Founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland Oliver Sears: Ireland ? like its European neighbours ? will eventually face a reckoning on how it responded to refugees from Ukraine. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Enter St Stephen’s Green from Leeson Street in Dublin and the first thing you see is the Operation Shamrock memorial. A 1956 gift from West Germany, the Three Fates fountain recalls the postwar scheme that brought hundreds of children – mostly from the ruins of Germany ? to Ireland. For the children it was a lifeline to Ireland has lasted a lifetime. It is, rightly, a proud moment in our...