So I actually wound up at this protest. I had no idea it was actually happening, we had house guests at the weekend, were showing them around town, and the protest was there. We’re opposed to the violent evictions that have happened and so walked along the end of their route.
I can’t say for sure that the organisers weren’t right-wing - the speakers used a megaphone and were totally incomprehensible, but there were definitely some hardline Republicans in the crowd (by the Irish definition of the term, not the American one), one guy sang verses of Rebel songs through a megaphone, and I saw a large Irish Republic flag for example. But there were also people flying Communist flags.
There was definitely some crank magnetism going on, I saw a group of Chemtrail conspiracy theorists in there.
