Social workers fear increasing numbers of young people are being drawn to anti-immigrant violence

Aisling Golden was one of the first to detect a growing trend in Dublin of vulnerable young people being drawn into anti-immigrant and far-right violence. Since then, racist attitudes among some of these teens have solidified, driven by social media and prominent anti-immigrant campaigners in the local community, according to a group of youth workers who spoke to The Irish Times this week. Some young people become involved out of boredom, some out of a misguided sense of patriotism, and some because it gives them a sense of purpose, they said.