The Government needs to respond “rapidly” to the right-wing style violence outside the Dáil last weekend or risk seeing this type of behaviour becoming “normalised”, an expert of terrorism has said. She said there is a “very fine line” between these groups being on the fringe of society and “becoming a significant threat”. One of the four women in the counter-protest group was knocked to the ground and suffered a significant head injury. She said there is a general upsurge globally and that “a right-wing style extremist approach surrounding political protest” is becoming an almost daily occurrence. But she added: “That is not to say, however, that there is not an element within society that does not strongly support and agree with these groups.

Source: Irish Examiner September 19, 2020 05:00 UTC