It surely requires a special level of internal group think on the part of the Irish establishment to all decide that, within two days of a knife attack on a Catholic priest, who is a chaplain in the state’s defence forces, by an individual with a “radical Islamist mindset”, the real danger to the security of the state emanates from people whose primary activity seems to be posting on social media.
In what feels like a “look over there” distraction from the stabbing that was the talk of the country, we have the media establishment jumping on a Sunday Times front page story by John Mooney which declared that the Gardaí now believe that there is a “substantial” terrorist threat from the far-right. Not only that, we were told, but the security agencies “now consider far-right extremism to pose a more serious threat than international jihadist terrorism and violent dissident republicanism.”
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