Picking a few random examples of successful integration does not mean that the largest cultural and demographic change in modern Europe’s history is positive.

Across Western Europe and the UK multiculturalism has been a total failure, as evidenced by Third World ghettos, “no-go” areas, white flight, migrant welfare dependency and high crime rates.

Ireland so far has experienced little of this, but then again multiculturalism was not apparently a problem in France in the 1970’s or in Britain in the 1980’s. It most certainly is now.

Liberals think that Ireland is uniquely going to have a positive long-term experience of mass migration of people from completely different cultures and lifestyles, they are deluding themselves.

Even worse, they are trying to delude the rest of us.

The irony of course is that people like Ms Prone and her generation which created this postmodern Europe will be dead long before the full consequences of Europe’s transformation will be felt.

Dr Frank Giles

Ballsbridge

Dublin 4