Revealed: How racist Irish YouTube accounts profit by livestreaming protests

A screenshot from a video claiming to be of people going from Finglas Garda Station toward the office of Sinn Féin TD Dessie Ellis.

Online livestreams by seven Irish YouTube accounts filming anti-migrant protests were viewed over a million times during the first days of 2023 amid warnings that violent rhetoric has ramped up. 

An analysis of just seven accounts reveals repeated anti-migrant and racist remarks, with livestreamers often referring to "fakeugees", a "plantation" and "people trafficking".