Séamas O'Reilly: It is becoming harder to say that Ireland doesn’t have a problem with the far-right

I’m happy that Alex Jones doesn’t know enough about Ireland to get my hometown’s name right. We will not sleepwalk into making it a place he’d feel right at home.

Seamas O'Reilly. Picture: Orfhlaith Whelan

Growing up, it was quite rare to hear about Derry on the news. 

We seldom made it on to the telly in the Republic of Ireland, and didn’t exist at all in the UK press.