Election 2024: Fractured far-right candidates fizzle out

While immigration was a major issue during the local elections, exit polls showed just 6% of people interviewed cited it as the main issue in the general election campaign
Election 2024: Fractured far-right candidates fizzle out

Far-right activist Philip Dwyer at the Wicklow Count Centre. Picture: Sasko Lazarov

Back in June, the man behind many of the large anti-immigrant protests in Dublin, Malachy Steenson, boasted the “revolution has begun”.

That was the “very clear message” he said of the results of the local elections — or at least of his election as councillor in Dublin’s North Inner City.

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