As a general rule, writers on these pages pay scant attention to the panopoly of youtubers, citizen journalists, and social media activists who comprise what might be called the vocal base of the so-called “far right” in Ireland. There are very good reasons for that: Chief amongst them is that far too much attention is paid to these people by their instinctive opponents in the rest of the media: There are precisely two groups of people in Ireland, for example, with a vested interest in over-estimating the cultural influence of activist and now EU election candidate Philip Dwyer.
Those two groups are, on the one hand, Philip Dwyer and his supporters, and, on the other hand, TDs like Paul Murphy, as well as left-leaning NGOs, who want to portray Philip Dwyer as an existential threat necessitating more funding for anti-extremist NGOs (which are coincidentally staffed largely by extremists who might be inclined to vote for Paul Murphy).
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