Irish folk singer, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin has taken to social media to weigh in on the unrest in Dublin City Centre over the last 24 hours, saying that "the riots last night did not come out of the blue," and  "they were instigated by fascists, whose names and faces we know, fascists who have been building in Ireland over the past number of years."

A politically-charged singer-songwriter, known for his involvement with the left-wing political party People Before Profit, Ó Ceannabháin added that "none of these fascists have faced any consequences for their hate mongering, nor will they for last night's riot. They have successfully incited young, alienated men and got them to go out and do the damage for them."

"The result of this is a climate of real terror among migrants and people of colour," he conintued. "Many of these are people who will be working in shops, in hospitals, on public transport, who will be picking up the pieces today after last night's destruction. We need to stand with them."

 

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He also expressed his concerns over creating further division through lambasting those invloved in the riots, encouraging greater discourse with those who he described as being "alientated".

"We will not win any of the alienated, mostly young, lads who have been drawn into the orbit of the fascists by dismissing them as "scumbags" or whatever else," he said.

"There are real problems of poverty, inequality, a housing crisis that need to be tackled. This has created a space for the fascists to misdirect anger and frustration. This is not to say that we stay silent on racism - quite the opposite. But our anti-racist work must go hand in hand with a fight for economic and social rights for all marginalised people, whatever their ethnic background or nationality."

Posting to Instagram, Ó Ceannabháin took the opportunity to express his lack of confidence in An Garda Síochána's capacity to manage the unrest.

"We cannot rely on Gardaí to deal with this," he wrote.  "They have taken a hands off approach to far-right from the outset, allowing people to board buses to count migrants, allowing camps to be burned, allowing fascists into libraries to terrorise staff and children.

"Instead, we need to build our own power, our own grass roots movement to fight against racism and the far right."