The Irish government has gone full commie. Just like Australia and New Zealand reds have taken over. I wonder if there is any rebellious spirit left in the Irish. How will they take this government crack down?
There's a historical analogue called the "Boston Massacre".
While not exact, you have a government that seeks not to address the stabbing of children by a foreign "migrant"--whose status is obstensively been obscured--but to punish the people who were outraged. When the government is seen as protecting non citizens committing atrocities against citizens, and it is seeking to punish the outrage, the spark might be some stupid politician(s), like the one in the article, directing law enforcement to 'crack heads'. If it were to actually happen, I wouldn't want to be the law enforcement officers who did it, the politicians who directed it, and by extension those who sided with it.