{"id":65189,"date":"2025-09-15T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/65189\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:41:09","slug":"gardai-investigating-dublin-attack-on-political-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/65189\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed investigating Dublin attack on political group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garda\u00ed say they are investigating reports of a violent assault in Dublin that took place on Saturday afternoon, as a far-Left militant group said they would use \u201cguns if necessary\u201d to suppress the \u201cfree speech\u201d of \u201cfascists\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the weekend, a video was posted to social media purporting to show a group of political activists from the controversial anti-immigration group Clann \u00c9ireann being physically assaulted, including with what appears to be a tire iron. In the background, an \u201cAntifa\u201d-themed song can be heard playing.<\/p>\n

The account that posted the video, Anti-Imperialist Ireland (AIA), has taken credit for what they call the \u201cambush\u201d, saying it took place \u201cjust off Clanbrassil St.\u201d near \u201cSt. Patrick\u2019s Park in the Liberties in Dublin\u201d.<\/p>\n

One picture shared shows a man huddled on the ground in the foetal position, and another showed the same individual sitting on the ground with blood pouring from his head.<\/p>\n

\u201cNAZIS WERE BEATEN OFF THE STREETS\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

AIA is a far-left self-described \u201cmilitant\u201d group with 18,800 followers on social media platform X. The video was shared by other Antifa-affiliated accounts, such as Lasair Dhearg in Ireland (7,028 followers) and an Antifa Ultras (173,300 followers).<\/p>\n

In a statement, AIA boasted that the \u201cClann \u00c9ireann neo-nazis\u201d were \u201cbeaten off streets\u201d and \u201cbattered\u201d by Antifa militants and Republicans, and that they had their uniforms stolen.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeveral of the fascists were hospitalised, with all anti-fascists safe and sound,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Neo-nazis will never be able to organise openly in Dublin. Today\u2019s direct action shows what is possible when Republicans work together in an organised and disciplined way.\u201d<\/p>\n

MILITANTS VOW TO USE \u201cGUNS IF NECESSARY\u201d TO SILENCE \u201cFASCISTS\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

They added that such \u2018militant ambushes\u2019 were the most effective way to deal with such situations, and that they would use \u201cguns if necessary\u201d to deprive \u201cfascists\u201d of free-speech.<\/p>\n

\u201cLearn your lesson. Militant anti-fascism will always win. Stay home,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the words of the great Socialist Republican and Anti-Fascist, Frank Ryan, \u2018While we have fists, hands and boots to use, and guns if necessary, there will be no free speech for traitors!\u2019 No Pas\u00e1ran.\u201d<\/p>\n

GARDA\u00cd INVESTIGATING<\/strong><\/p>\n

Asked about the materials being shared online, a Garda spokesperson confirmed that while they did not comment on \u201cthird party materials\u201d, they were investigating a \u201cpublic order incident\u201d in the area at that time.<\/p>\n

\u201cGarda\u00ed received report of a public order incident involving a group of individuals that occurred yesterday afternoon, Saturday 13th August 2025, in the Dublin 8 area,\u201d the spokesperson told Gript.<\/p>\n

\u201cUpon arrival of Garda\u00ed at the scene, those involved had dispersed. Investigations into this matter are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n

CLANN \u00c9IREANN RESPONDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clann \u00c9ireann, an offshoot of the National Party led by far-right campaigner Justin Barrett, said members were attacked after an event in Dublin on September 13th.<\/p>\n

In a post on social media, Barrett\u2019s wife Rebecca said masked individuals targeted her car, in which she was travelling with their two children, as members left the gathering.<\/p>\n

She said two members of the group were seriously injured and taken to hospital, dubbing the attack \u201cterrorism\u201d.<\/p>\n

Previously in 2022, an Ard Fheis meeting of the National Party at the Lough Erne Hotel in Co. Fermanagh was attacked by about 30 to 40 far-left militants armed with hammers, with some attendees being hospitalised in that case as well.<\/p>\n

FAR-LEFT POLITICAL VIOLENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Notably, according to Europol\u2019s annual terrorism report, between 2012 and 2023, 78.2% of all terrorism arrests in Ireland pertained to Dissident Republicans, who it identifies as far-left.<\/p>\n

\u201cDissident Republican groups aim to reunite Ireland with Northern Ireland and create a 32-county socialist republic in Ireland\u2026\u201d Europol\u2019s \u2018European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2023\u2019 reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Dissident Republican groups continue to have associations with left-wing extremists and have travelled to take part in socialist \/ Marxist events across the EU, including Spain and Greece.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident comes amid fresh fears of rising political violence across the West, after conservative college debater Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA was fatally shot in the throat on-stage at an event last week by a far-left radical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed say they are investigating reports of a violent assault in Dublin that took place on Saturday afternoon,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[45900,45901,9,10,45902,715,18,13,14,11167,6,19,17,45903,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-65189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-anti-imperialist-action-ireland","9":"tag-antifa","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-breakingnews","12":"tag-clann-eireann","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-featured-news","16":"tag-featurednews","17":"tag-gardai","18":"tag-headlines","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-justin-barrett","22":"tag-latest-news","23":"tag-latestnews","24":"tag-main-news","25":"tag-mainnews","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}