Threats, violence and swastika flags. What's happened to Ireland of the welcomes?

Refugees-welcome volunteers and community workers around the country have been threatened, doxxed on social media, and subjected to protests outside their homes. As anti-refugee sentiment is stoked by criminal elements and the far-right, how will communities cope?

An anti-asylum-seeker protest outside Finglas Garda Station on Wednesday. Picture: RollingNews.ie

"This is for our culture, our country. The only way to deal with [ refugees] is to burn them out. Go to where they live and burn them out."

The masked speaker outside Finglas Garda Station was the embodiment of the febrile atmosphere at anti-migrant protests in recent weeks.