Opinion: 'You've never fled from your country - you've gone away, but you weren't forced'

SINCE 2014, I have filmed my friends Hashem, Alicia and Alireza as they have rebuilt their lives abroad after leaving the homes they were given.

In I Must Away, my debut feature which screens at Dublin International Film Festival on 3 March, Hashem, Alicia and Alireza’s migration stories are interspliced with my own, and are narrated by a series of letters from me to my late grandmother, Mary Rowan, who spent most of her life in Islands, Williamstown, Co Galway, just six miles from where she was born.

And even though my Irish passport makes me one of the most privileged migrants on the planet, it has been interesting to reflect on the circumstances of my departure from Ireland while making I Must Away. Imagine having to do this while in hiding from the authorities, who have deemed you “illegal” for simply being in your new country; or as your children grow up without you because you’ve had to move to the other side of the world to live and work in safety.

This is embarrassing. You left your cushy number after the financial crash? That must have been traumatizing. dubs have NEVER been emigrants you've had every resource, service and opportunity for employment under the sun. You should have filmed the reality in the West,north West!

Yawn. Nobody actually buys your bullshit. Lowlifes trying to guilt trip the native Irish into welcoming criminal parasites with open arms while they take advantage of international crises and the good Irish nature. You're liars. You're absolute scum.

Did they travel under false pretenses? Destroy their documentation? Disrespect the nation they travelled to? You are privileged. Being privileged is good, desirable. No need to punish everyone else for your personal feelings of guilt.

Nice tracksuit on the author, but that’s where the good news for him ends😉 there’s more likes on the comments than the article 😂

relishing own superiority,and being satisfied from those inferior

Reads like a school homework essay.

But the Albanians are dressed in head to toe Balenciaga. Was told by my daughter those clothes cost a fortune. They also have 3-4 phones each. How are they in so much danger then?

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