PUBLIC Founded in 2019, the far right Irish Freedom Party has come to be known as an ‘astro-turf’ organisation in reference to its importing of campaign tactics and continued failure to establish a genuine grassroots base in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Members of the far-right organisation (Hermann Kelly, formerly Dolores Cahill, Michael Leahy, Conor Rafferty, James Conway) push anti-immigration and socially authoritarian disinformation alongside populist rhetoric seeking to insert themselves into organised community grievances.