Tánaiste backs Garda approach to policing far-right protests

Tánaiste backs Garda approach to policing far-right protests

Tánaiste Micheál Martin has 'confidence in the gardaí and in their capacity to deal with' far-right protests.

Tánaiste Micheál Martin has backed what he calls An Garda Síochána’s “balanced, subtle, and intelligence-led approach” to the policing of elements of the far right in Ireland.

Mr Martin was speaking as investigations continue into the petrol-bombing of a former Cork City school which is being adapted to house Ukrainian families, and after two men were arrested at a protest in Ballybrack in Dublin against the housing of international protection applicants in the area.

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