Dublin Riots: Will the Far Right Change Irish Politics?

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

We break down the political consequences of the recent far-right riots in Dublin, explaining how the violence began, who has been instigating movements like this, and how this could transform the country's political landscape. We see how members of the far right have failed in electoral gains, but have succeeded in disrupting the traditional political process, which until now has been remarkably accessible to Irish voters. With a host of national and European elections and referendums on the horizon, is the real disruption still to come? You can find the Go Fund Me pages for the victims and heroes of the Dublin knife attack here: https://www.gofundme.com/en-ie/c/act/parnell-square-attack-and-riots-how-to-help

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Ano-Irafat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.5	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay. Hello, everyone.
0:39.3	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Irish Passport podcast, where we are today talking about something that I think listeners all around the world probably saw and that was some really
0:45.3	large scale rioting that went on in Dublin not that long ago. What one, two weeks ago now,
0:51.3	we're recording on the 6th of December.
0:58.9	So this is still very fresh in the minds of Dubliners and anyone who saw those reports.
1:10.2	Because these reporting, Naomi, as you're going to tell us, were all based around, A, fears about immigration, but B, also like delusions, kind of conspiracy theories about immigration.
1:14.6	And this is something we've brought up before, but as you're going to tell us, this has become really, really worrying.
1:16.6	Can you maybe walk us through where we are at the moment?
1:20.6	Well, just do a quick recap about what happened that Thursday.
1:24.4	So there was stabbing outside an Irish language school in the city centre in Dublin.
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