Plainclothes gardaí watched discreetly from the sidelines on Monday as hundreds of anti-immigration protesters gathered outside the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin city centre and prepared to march to the Custom House. These detectives were not looking out for public order breaches or potential clashes with the antiracism counter demonstrators further up O’Connell Street – that was the job of the hundreds of public order and uniformed gardaí deployed to the protest. Instead, they were searching for far-right activists involved in recent criminality, including the Dublin riots of November 23rd last and attacks on asylum seeker accommodation centres in the...