News from the Meath-East by-election coal face is that Ireland may have found its dangerous populist right-wing movement.
Ben Gilroy, ‘Freeman’, is contesting the by-election for Direct Democracy Ireland. He is everything one would expect of a right-wing populist.
http://directdemocracyireland.ie/
He appears to have built support through his opposition to evictions in Meath, although how successful that dirct action has been is another question.
A useful piece about his links to UKIP and the far-right is here:
http://redheadplace.blogspot.ie/2013/03/ben-gilroy-and-far-right.html
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the poll on March 27th.