Germany expects a deal with Ireland to share flow of Middle East migrants - Kerber

A German rescuer volunteer escorts with his vessel a dinghy with refugees and migrants as they arrive from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos. File picture.

Donal O'Donovan

Germany expects to strike a deal in March to get Ireland other European Unions nations to accept a share of the growing flow of migrants from the Middle East, the head of the country's biggest employers group said in Dublin.