What’s fuelling the emergence of Ireland's far right?
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The Times
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🗓️ 19 August 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
A new political movement is fomenting in Ireland, inspired by American far-right groups and fuelled by anger over immigration.
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| 0:57.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. For one week this summer, far-right protests and riots seem to break out across the United Kingdom. |
| 1:14.0 | But in Ireland, they've been a growing phenomenon for a couple of years. |
| 1:19.0 | Buildings have been burnt down. |
| 1:22.0 | Police have been attacked and protests have been |
| 1:26.0 | flaring up around the country. This is just one example of how they begin. |
| 1:35.0 | A number of months ago the Irish government signals its intention |
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| 1:45.7 | It's located in an area called Kulak into a facility to provide accommodation |
| 1:52.1 | for refugees and asylum seekers and |
| 1:55.3 | very quickly that location became the site of an ongoing protest. |
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