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Paul Rouse: no pandering to racists and populists in Ireland's new reality 

There is nothing positive about the current remaking of history as an appeal to agitation, however.
Paul Rouse: no pandering to racists and populists in Ireland's new reality 

Protesters marched on O’Connell Street as part of an anti-immigration march in Dublin city centre. Pic: Sasko Lazarov / © RollingNews.ie

Trying to separate the real and authentic from that which is fake and contrived is one of the great challenges of modern life.

It is something that is made all the more important when the streets of our country and our media channels (social and otherwise) are polluted with opportunists and racists, some of whom are now so emboldened that they do not even feel the need to disguise their contempt for fellow humans.

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