Election 2024: Immigration — Tackling misinformation and housing will quell much discontent

In Ireland, years of under-investment in housing and public services clashed with a sudden increase in people coming to Ireland

At Newtownmountkennedy, Co Wicklow, violence erupted in April over plans to accommodate international protection applicants there. File picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

As fires burned across Ireland at accommodation destined, or merely rumoured, to house refugees in violent protests, far-right rallies were also mushrooming up in towns and cities internationally.

A similar poison to anti-semitic narratives in 1930s Germany were re-infecting western nations — from Ireland to the UK to Poland to France to the US.