Jenny McCartney Jenny McCartney

The chilling rise of ‘IRA TikTok’

issue 06 March 2021

There’s an ever shorter period now, it seems, between the emergence of any new medium and its energetic use for promoting hatred. And no one can accuse the young fans of militant Irish republicanism of not keeping up with the times: the proliferation of ‘IRA TikTok’ is a case in point.

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