I’ll say one thing for the @FineGael spin, it’s working. No one is talking about;

1. Who ordered the Garda to support the #TakeBackTheCity eviction? It was a civil not a criminal matter.

2. Who authorised the wearing of balaclavas but not helmets?

https://twitter.com/simonharristd/status/1041289185280368640

Let’s not forget that online comments that have caused such outrage were provoked by shocking scenes of masked Garda evicting activists who were highlighting the chronic Housing crisis across the capital & country.

In 2002 I along with a few other people filmed the Garda assaulting protests at a reclaim the streets protest on Dame St.

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https://twitter.com/oconnellhugh/status/1041615162397081600

In 2002 at an RTS in Dublin, had started on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, and was finishing to by going on a parade. The event wasn’t legal and by the time the protest hit Dame St, some Garda clearly had had enough, and

So this is interesting & let me tell you why.

@savethe8thinfo is apparently run (in part) out of Hungary.

Do you know who else is based in Hungary & heavily involved in the Anti Choice movement in both countries?

Jim Dowson. The money man behind Britain First.

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Some background on Dowson 1st. He was kicked out of the Orange Order in the 90s for being too extreme and was both heavily involved in both the BNP, and the loyalist flag riots in Belfast in 2010/11. He has several criminal convictions,