Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD, a serving member of the Irish parliament, has been filmed telling a voter to “fuck off” after they quizzed him on the issue of immigration.
Ó Snodaigh is a member of the left-wing Sinn Féin, a party that — while supporting a variety of far-left causes such as transgenderism and mass migration — receives a sizable amount of its support from right-leaning voters for historic reasons.
One of these reasons is the party’s links to the provisional IRA, a terrorist group active from the late 60s to the turn of the 21st century which aimed to undermine British control of Northern Ireland. The contested six-county region remains part of the United Kingdom to this day, while the southern part of the island is an independent nation-state.