Mick Clifford: Far-right effort to generate hate is a damp squib 

Any hopes that ‘national day of action’ would dwarf water charge protests soon dissipated, says Mick Clifford

A masked protestor at the Dublin Port Tunnel as a group of demonstrators blocked the road during a protest against the asylum-seeker accommodation centre in East Wall, Dublin. Picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews

The day of action began badly for the anti-refugee protestors. In Athy, Co Kildare, gardaí arrested and later charged a man in relation to an alleged threat to set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers.

Stephen O’Rourke was one of those involved in planning a protest due to take place in Athy last night.