David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society in Pamplona, Spain, and has just the right name to be writing about riots and social unrest, which is very much living storm and stress, sturm und drang. He notes that the Irish authorities are blaming the riots as being a Right-wing thing, that is their reason to not address the initial problem that led to the riots, that of violent immigrant criminals committing crimes, but is an excuse to crack down on political positions that the migration-mad state does not like. And, much of the looting was done not by political activists but by opportunistic rioters.
As noted “while there is no excuse for attacking police officers or setting vehicles alight, the Irish government has undoubtedly paved the way for these riots by refusing to listen to its citizens for years. Ireland’s political establishment has consistently been dismissive toward reasonable concerns about its immigration and refugee policies, reducing them to the rantings of a “Far-Right” fringe. This has created an atmosphere of pent-up resentment and frustration, and it was only a matter of time before this frustration erupted onto the streets.”