The Micheál Martin Interview: The 'blissfully unaware' are blind to the growing fear in EU states

Micheál Martin in his office at Government Buildings, Dublin. Picture: Gareth Chaney
A well-thumbed copy of the book Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad sits on the otherwise pristine desk in the Taoiseach’s office, but Micheál Martin hasn’t yet had much time to resettle in.
Daniel Finkelstein's family memoir provides an account of the author’s Jewish parents’ persecution during the Second World War, how his mother survived Hitler’s death camps and how his father endured slave labour and starvation in Stalin’s Siberian gulag.