Dublin creche confronted for kids’ rainbow painting by charged far-right dog-kicker.

Philip Dwyer, a self-styled ‘citizen journalist’ aligned with Ireland’s far-right anti-immigrant movement, appeared before the Tallaght District Court in Dublin on Tuesday, charged with engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour at a creche in Dublin on June 30, 2021. He was remanded on bail to appear again on May 2. After his appearance, Dwyer streamed a video from outside the court, describing the charge as “ridiculous”, claiming that it was another attack on journalism and freedom of expression. Dwyer found it “quite frightening that the gardai are openly and unashamedly in favour of corruption of children”. Dwyer regularly live-streams protests and is a former postman who was dismissed from An Post in 2010 for dereliction of duty and failure to comply with their instructions. In the subsequent unfair dismissal case taken by Dwyer, it emerged he had kicked a number of dogs, including a friendly black collie he kicked in the head with a steel-toe-cap boot, and threatened another woman that he would kill her family’s dog.