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OK... so the knife attacker was Algerian born but had lived in Ireland for the last 20 years and was an Irish citizen. Clearly not in his right mind and a random attack by a mentally unwell individual.
There may be some truth to the far-right business as having stoked the fire that kicked off the riots but the vast majority of the "protestors" are just scumbag kids who were looking for an opportunity to kick off and go on a looting spree... they wouldn't know their left from their right hands never mind ideologies.
The whole thing was effectively a display of wanton violence and destruction by disaffected youth of disadvantaged backgrounds and its now being twisted into fitting some far right agenda by dickheads like Boris Johnson who would take great pleasure in Ireland having an "immigrant problem".
TLDR media is not representing the reality of this situation accurately at all... what a surprise.