Mick Clifford: Irish Maga starts here. Or it might just be disaffected folks letting off steam

Eddie Hobbs's IRL Forum can't be dismissed as merely 'far right' — but people harbouring anti-immigrant conspiracy theories would find common cause with much of its agenda

Eddie Hobbs speaking during the IRL Forum at the Pillo Hotel, Ashbourne, Co Meath, last Saturday. Picture: Gareth Chaney 

They came to put meat on the bones of their disaffection, disillusionment, and disgust at where the country is going.

Last weekend, the first IRL Forum convened in the Pillo Hotel in Ashbourne, Co Meath.