‘Keep Ireland Irish’: Say hello to Ireland’s growing far right

The far right in Ireland is rising. It is a broad church – encompassing religious fundamentalists, nationalists and many shades in between – but the movement has recently coalesced around one thing: immigration. There were 307 anti-migrant protests in 2022, while in 2023 there have already been 64 such protests, according to the Gardai, Ireland’s police force, calling the numbers an “exponential increase”. “Ireland’s borders are wide open,” Niall McConnell, leader of the Irish Nationalist Catholic Party, told Euronews. “There is no restriction on immigration.” “The indigenous Irish are being r…

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