It has the ingredients of a Frederick Forsyth thriller: stolen gold bullion, political intrigue, betrayal and a sprinkling of Adolf Hitler.
The saga of Ireland’s far-right National party and its vault of gold bars, however, has played out more like an Armando Iannucci farce.
“An Garda Síochána is carrying out inquiries into an allegation of theft from a premises in Dublin 4,” a police statement said on Wednesday.
The National party, founded in 2016, claims Irish people are being replaced, and their identity extinguished, by immigrants in a new “plantation” sponsored by the EU, financial institutions and political elites.
A message on its website on 31 July said he had been removed as president “due to an overwhelming lack of confidence from active party members” and replaced by his deputy, James Reynolds.
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It has the ingredients of a Frederick Forsyth thriller: stolen gold bullion, political intrigue, betrayal and a sprinkling of Adolf Hitler.
The saga of Ireland’s far-right National party and its vault of gold bars, however, has played out more like an Armando Iannucci farce.
“An Garda Síochána is carrying out inquiries into an allegation of theft from a premises in Dublin 4,” a police statement said on Wednesday.
The National party, founded in 2016, claims Irish people are being replaced, and their identity extinguished, by immigrants in a new “plantation” sponsored by the EU, financial institutions and political elites.
A message on its website on 31 July said he had been removed as president “due to an overwhelming lack of confidence from active party members” and replaced by his deputy, James Reynolds.
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