Grundle's Far-Right Rally Flops with Small Crowds

0:00On April 4, Dan Grundel, a convicted loyalist rider from Northern Ireland, stirred up a far right rally in coal rain by claiming the Republic of. Ireland is collapsing under migrants, that's despite net migration dropping sharply there. The 31-year-old, also known as Daniel Douglas, served three years in prison for joining violent anti-protocol protests back in 2000, 21. He's now leading our Northern Ireland voice, or ONIV, a group pushing against what they call illegal mass migration. They organized Saturday's rally and predicted 2,500 people would show up. Turnout was way lower, just low hundreds, with a counter-protest from Causeway Trade Union pulling similar numbers. On one of the gets backing from the coal-rained casual army, a football-hooligan crew. Grundel's past is rough. He confessed online to heavy drug abuse, including glue sniffing and meth, and got busted during riots after hurling a used. Toilet at cops, leaving his DNA behind.

1:01He has other convictions for disorderly behavior, too. Out of prison since 2023, he says he's cleaned up his act for his kids, but this rally shows he's channeling that energy into anti-immigration fire. The small crowd suggests his message isn't catching on big yet.