A new report has been published as part of Maynooth
University’s STOPFARRIGHT project, which looks at strategies for resisting and
countering the Far Right in Ireland. The project was inspired by concern at the
rise of the far right throughout Europe, North America and elsewhere, and more
immediately in Ireland, as the far right became increasingly visible in
demonstrations against Covid 19 public health measures in the country. The
report contains ideas about anti-far right strategizing from Irish and international
civil society organisations and academics, and features FuJo’s Eileen Culloty
who participated in a Project Webinar on the role of misinformation in far right strategies.
Eileen discussed the insights gained from the H2020 Provenance project, which
examined anti-immigrant disinformation as a case study and investigated how
online audiences struggle to contextualise and evaluate both legitimate and
manipulative news stories about migration.
The STOPFARRIGHT project finds there is urgent need for a
national anti-far right strategy in Ireland, comprising a more militant state
in the defence of Irish democracy, more state and community controls on social
media companies, more principled and exemplary conduct from non-far right
political parties, which are more intolerant of the far right and far right
linked ideas, and a better supported and more active civil society which can
build resilience and intolerance of the far right among local communities.
The project was carried out in association with the Crosscare
Migrant Project (CMP) and supported with funding from the Irish Research
Council’s (IRC) New Foundations Programme. The full report can be accessed Here
