Mr. Mark Malone:

I will answer the second question first. It is important to have an understanding. You need to make the choice on the basis of understanding the dynamics that are at play. To a large degree, the far-right activity we are seeing is a very deliberate reconstruction of what Irishness is meant to be. It is a large portion of what the politics of this is all about, so there is a role for every political organisation to restate its values in the context of what it is about.

In terms of being able to push back, a very thin reinterpretation of what we could describe as ethno-nationalism that is playing out, the anti-mobilisations that are very explicitly designed to try to create an othering that reduces Irishness to a very defined, closed concept. There is clearly a role for political organisations to restate their vision for what they want the country to be that stands in direct opposition to that very narrow interpretation per se.

The Deputy made reference to the policing operation in Roscrea.