OPINION: 'TAKE THE WIN'—IRISH RIGHT URGED TO TURN TOUGHER IMMIGRATION TALK INTO DEPORTATION ACTION

Irish commentator Laura Perrins argues that right-wing voters should bank incremental gains as senior officials adopt tougher immigration rhetoric—citing Tánaiste Simon Harris’s claim that numbers are "too high"—and focus on converting talk into policy. She frames the backlash from the left as predictable "pushback" and urges coalition-building to shift the Overton window. She invokes Brexit as proof that incremental steps can culminate in major outcomes, and calls for holding politicians to account to turn rhetoric into enforcement and deportation actions rather than rejecting imperfect wins.