harris uh the guarda commissioner and the minister for justice allen macinty was that we need to give these guys a light touch because somehow would be playing into their hands by arresting them and prosecuting them um and so in the absence of the state taking action against them they've just been able to kind of metastasize into this really really dangerous force that's going around burning down accomodation for uh asylum seekers and refugees all the while um the media has um, you know, minimized, try to minimize what's happening, um, people like mick clifford who wrote a piece saying, it's basically no far right in ireland, right? um, or then when they do acknowledge that these guys, um, that these guys are a problem, they have to equivocate so they say, there's a threat from far right, and of course the far left as well, you know, paul murphy will from time to time go on panel show to talk about the far right, and he speaks extremely well on the issue, but almost without fail, you know, people say, well, didn't... to sit around john berton's car, you know, even though he went to a