I’ll be honest: when I heard there was going to be an immigration protest in Dublin, part of me thought “What’s the point? Unless you can mobilise an absolutely huge crowd, nobody in the middle cares. These little protests don’t move the needle in any significant way.”
Turns out I was absolutely categorically wrong: the protest seems like it was genuinely massive. It might even be significant enough to put immigration back on the agenda for a while and remind politicians that it’s still an issue that loads of people care about. I obviously underestimated the magnitude of it, very impressive turnout.