Irish far-right agitator visits US white supremacist Nick Fuentes

A security source said gardaí are aware of the meeting and are monitoring the young Irishman’s contact with Fuentes.

The Irishman is among a “number of members of the Irish far right whose online and offline activities are being monitored. These activities include his recent trip to London to meet with Fuentes”.

The man, who lives in rural Ireland, is a self-proclaimed antisemite. He previously posted racist comments online about the fatal shooting of young Black man George Nkencho by gardaí in west Dublin.

He is currently banned from Twitter, but frequently appears in YouTube videos as well as on other streaming platforms, where he discusses his ideologies.

He also has links to the far-right Irish National Party, and has appeared at some of its protests in the capital.

“He thinks he’s an intellectual because he has a college degree. He’s on the garda radar,” the source said.

​The man and Fuentes met in central London a couple of weeks ago and were photographed together.

Fuentes (24) is a live streamer with a significant social media following. A former YouTuber, his channel was permanently suspended in February 2020 for violating the platform’s hate-speech policy.

Fuentes identifies as a member of the Incel movement — people who define themselves as unable to get a sexual partner despite desiring one.

Last November, Fuentes made international headlines after Kanye West invited him to dinner with Donald Trump at former US president’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.

After the dinner, Trump attempted to distance himself from Fuentes, claiming he had no idea who the far-right extremist was.

In several posts to Truth Social describing the dinner, Trump said West showed up with three friends “whom I knew nothing about”.

Trump’s characterisation of the dinner was undermined by West, who claimed in a campaign-style video posted to Twitter that the former president was “really impressed with Nick Fuentes”.

A long-time Trump adviser, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told American media outlets the dinner was a public relations disaster for his boss.

Fuentes is the founder of the America First Foundation, whose stated aim is to remake the Republican Party into a “truly reactionary party”, according to the Southern Poverty Law Centre.