The growth of the far-right in Ireland

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Ireland is one of the few countries in Europe where the far-right movement has not had a strong political foothold. No far-right party holds a seat in Parliament — while election campaigns by extremist politicians have all ended in failure. But as The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports, riots in Dublin last month have raised fears that this is about to change. 

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