Cormac O’Keeffe: Far-right violence will become normalised if Government does not act

A terrorism expert tells Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe that there is a risk that extremist violence will become normalised in Ireland unless it is tackled swiftly

Large numbers of supporters of groups which are opposed to Covid-19 restrictions arrive at Government Buildings as they demonstrate in Dublin city last week. Picture: Leah Farrell/Rollingnews.ie

The Government needs to respond “rapidly” to the right-wing style violence outside the Dáil last weekend or risk seeing this type of behaviour becoming “normalised”, an expert of terrorism has said.

Natasha Dromey, attached to University College Cork, said that if this aggression is allowed to become commonplace it could provide an opening for a “more extremist movement” to grow in the country.