"the Irish far-right loathe Ireland more than anyone else", Joe Brolly has said

A complicating factor is that security analysts reckon that while the initial protest for 7pm was planned by the far right, many other opportunist thugs and hooligans and street criminals got wind of what was happening via social media and came along just for the aggro and to cause mayhem.

It may well have ended up with a scenario where one third of the rioters were genuinely far right and the other two thirds were just general louts and yobs with no particular interest in far right politics or the immigration question.

Ah yes, those who want to change nearly everything about our nation are the ones who love it. Those who want to preserve what we have/had are the ones who hate Ireland. This is gaslighting of the worst kind.

Ironically, I suspect many of the far right protesters didn't intend there to be violence at the 7pm event, but their protest was effectively hijacked by the numerous gurriers who came along and who immediately started lobbing missiles at the Gardai.

But it's example perhaps of how constantly whipping things up on social media can have unintended consequences.

I would have more in common with a teacher in Istanbul or Toronto than I would with some scobe on a scooter in his nike tech fleece shouting 'up the ra'. They make people ashamed to be Irish.

The scumbag rioters have more integrity than Joe Brolly, there has never been a single honest word from that POS.

SF have, unwittingly, acted as a bulwark by bringing along a far right element under a left banner. It seems that a cohort of their vote hear “Ireland for the Irish” when SF talk of a united Ireland.

The biggest worry I, personally, would have now is not what will happen if SF get into government but what happens in the election after they’ve been in government, when that “voter base” comes to realise that SF are a pro-immigration party on the left.

Ah the far right bogeyman, responsible for everything, every poorly thought out government policy and mishandled situation. It wouldn’t be government incompetence? Is it the far right that underfunded the Gardai? Is it the far right stabbing babies in their prams? Is it the far right not paying their TV licenses too? What else can they be blamed for?

There is a element who look at SF with their avowed nationalism and Irish flag politics as being an "Irish for the Irish" Party. A not insignificant element either. These are generally the one brained cell, someone else is to blame for everything brigade. That someone else now being immigrants. The brain cell is too busy engaged in hate however to realise Sinn Fein do not stand for the hate they profess.

An emergence of a> 10% anti immigrant party would probably impact the Sinn Fein vote more than any of the other party's even though there would be minimal overlap in platforms.