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Far Right Foreigners on Irish Social Media - The Canary in The Coalmine

Fuel prices… cost of living pressure… and protests that, at first glance, looked like they we...

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01.01 8 May 2026


Far Right Foreigners on Irish Social Media - The Canary in The Coalmine


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01.01 8 May 2026


Fuel prices… cost of living pressure… and protests that, at first glance, looked like they were coming straight from the ground up. 

 But online, there was a different conversation being had... 

 Some were amplified… shaped… and pushed by voices far outside Ireland. 

 So, how much of what we saw was actually homegrown and who is attempting to control to narrative? 

Ciara is joined by Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Neale Richmond and by Aidan O’Brien, analyst with the European Digital Media Observatory Ireland, which is part of the FuJo institute. 


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