News of the massive gold reserves held by National Party came from an unusual source: the party's president Justin Barrett. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Even among Ireland’s far-right organisations, the National Party occupies a uniquely extreme position. Party leader Justin Barrett has suggested Irish people born to foreign parents should be stripped of their citizenship, has quoted Adolf Hitler and, in a previous political life, appeared as a speaker at neo-Nazi rallies. This explains, at least in part, why the party remains firmly on the fringes of Irish politics, never coming close to returning a candidate at any level, despite...