Irish Examiner view: Racism will not be tolerated

Far-right protestors showed up at Dublin's Mansion House to target Lord Mayor Hazel Chu after an event was publicised on far-right message boards

Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu has endured sustained and unrelenting online abuse by racist and far-right voices since she became Lord Mayor of our capital in June. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Earlier this week, 11 protesters were arrested outside the Four Courts in Dublin over alleged breaches of Covid-19 restrictions and public order offences. 

It might be tempting to imagine that end-the-lockdown protest as a relatively harmless Irish expression of QAnon conspiracy lunacies. The modest scale of that protest is, in one way at least, reassuring.