Irish Examiner view: Participate in elections to defeat intolerance

Extremism eroding democracy

Posters on Merrion Street, for candidates in the upcoming Dublin Bay South by-election. Photograph: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

In a little over two weeks’ time, the Dublin Bay South electorate — “by far the most affluent” in the country — will elect a successor to former housing minister Eoghan Murphy who quit the Dáil in April. 

Though the Fine Gael deputy insisted the housing crisis did not influence his decision it is hard not to imagine that it may have, especially as he cited the personal abuse routinely visited on him and his friends over the crisis.