Many of Ireland's left-wing establishment are nouveau riche (not necessarily "rich," but certainly affluent by American standards). Their hatred of indigenous working-class Irish people seems to know no bounds.
It is very similar to the hatred that the American leftist establishmemt (and their useful idiots) have for ordinary working Americans.
You can see at Reddit how programmed so many of the young Irish people are. Many of them are children of affluent parents (they will inherit), and themselves have high-paying white-collar jobs, so they will not be impacted personally by the economic and cultural destruction of the Irish nation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/1fkvi84/rte_investigates_inside_the_protests/
The late Desmond Fennell was raising the alarm about this during that time in his books and articles. He was a lone voice (a voice crying in the wilderness) warning that the Irish intelligentsia hated the Irish nation and were intent on its destruction. He was marginalised then, and is ignored now by nearly everyone in Ireland.
I don't have any quotes at hand since I have learned about all of this via Telegram, where the extremely erudite channel Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff has documented Ireland's demise in a way not found anywhere else (to my knowledge).
Unfortunately, Telegram is not easy to link to online or even show other people, especially the way the info comes in via small chunks. (Between TG and Twitter - no wonder I have been glued to my phone for the last 8 years). If you know you know.
UPDATE: Maybe some Telegram channels are easier to link to than others. Here is the AIDS channel:
https://t.me/s/IrelandArchive/3952
Thanks! Plenty to explore there.