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Showing posts with label Dublin protest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dublin protest. Show all posts

Saturday, November 25, 2023

Brendan O'Neill: Ireland and the fury of the cancelled


When you cancel democracy, violence often takes its place.

So they’re lunatics. The protesters, rioters and looters who hit the streets of Dublin last night are ‘people who are severely mentally ill’, which is how my dictionary defines a lunatic. That’s according to Garda commissioner Drew Harris. The violent mob that rocked Dublin yesterday in response to the mass stabbing of four people, including three kids, are a ‘complete lunatic hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology’, Ireland’s top cop raged on TV. Stop your Googling, park your analysis, we now know why hundreds descended on central Dublin – because they’re madmen and fascists.