Gardaí: Violence at protest in Wicklow driven by far-right agitators

A screengrab from video posted following the protest in Newtownmountkennedy. Source: Twitter/X

Gardaí believe that the violence seen outside a planned asylum-seeker accommodation centre in Co Wicklow on Thursday was driven by far-right agitators who had travelled down from Dublin that day.

A number of sources said this group of individuals “poured fuel over the fire” and agitated those present into a “confrontation” with gardaí.