The Commissioner said he believed the foreign actors were giving Irish activists bad advice - because they did not know the relationship between people here and gardai
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has warned that far-right activists in Europe and America are getting involved in anti-immigration protests in Ireland.
READ MORE - Violence at Coolock protest - gangland criminals suspected of inciting chaos amid fears of full riot "Online, we would say there are a couple of dozen individuals who are very active. But they are very active in the international sphere as well. Gardai came under attack and fires were set several times at the former Crown Paints factory in Coolock which has been earmarked as housing for asylum seekers.Protests were organised at the site by a group called 'Coolock Says No'.
Further protests then took place from around 8.15am and at around 10am the "situation started to turn ugly".A call went out to draw on personnel from across the Dublin Metropolitan Region and Mr Harris said the process for members to "disengage" from what they were doing and travel to Coolock properly equipped "just took time".
He continued: "I do think there are lessons to be learned from this. We're going through our own review, but I think there's lessons to be learned by other organisations and other departments in respect of this as well. "Over the last number of evenings, rather than having public order units on the Malahide Road, it has just been a couple of guards, none of them in uniform, and they've been on patrol, they've engaged with the protesters that are there and managed them without huge overt displays of force.
"But I do think there's lessons to be learned in terms of the relationship then also with the contractor and all of those lessons should be learned.
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