The Irish Nick Griffin
THIS IS the Irish right-wing extremist who wants to set up a BNP-style party in Ireland.
By day John Kavanagh is a web designer but has a secret online life as a leading figure in the Irish “white power” community.
Openly racist Kavanagh hopes to set up a party similar to the fascist British Nationalist Party and has been recruiting from the dregs of the Irish internet.
Following an Irish Sunday Mirror investigation into his activities 32-year-old Kavanagh yesterday confessed to being a member of the race hate site but when confronted claimed he did NOT know he was talking to violent neo-Nazis.
Kavanagh has been posting to the website of former KKK leader Don Black, making contact with neo-Nazis across the country.
Posting under the username Europeunited he declared: “I hate Indians, p**i, Muslims and all that other crap in my country. I want to take the fight to them.
“If I had power… blacks, Muslims, p***s, etc. I’d round them up and shoot them all for invading my country. Don’t worry about the tidy up, I’d make them dig their mass graves first.”
When confronted about his extremist violent stance Kavanagh confessed to inciting racial violence on the site but added that he would never kill anyone.
“Would I ever kill anybody, no, I can’t kill no one. I said that on stormfront but would I kill people?, no,” Kavanagh declared.
He claimed he did not remember making violent posts about killing black people and stated: “I would never initiate violence against anybody.
I would never use violence on somebody unless they used violence on me first. I don’t think I am talking to violent neo-Nazis.”
The Limerick internet hardman tried to intimidate our reporter by posting on the neo-Nazi hate site asking cronies to find his offices and confront him as well as threatening to drive to Dublin himself.
The stuttering racist has been posting pictures online of people he finds on Facebook pages he believes could be our man in a pathetic attempt to prevent investigations into his activities going ahead.
But all posts made by Kavanagh, from Strand, Co Limerick, as well as threatening emails are being sent to gardai.
Kavanagh’s sick ideas have proved so unpopular that despite him spending the last nine months recruiting online he has so far only managed to gather a half dozen misfits with any interest in his planned group.
Styling himself as an Irish Nick Griffin, leader of the ultra- right wing BNP, Kavanagh uses his computer skills to design websites he hopes will further his extremist agenda as well as publishing hate filled videos on youtube under the name ARMireland.
His web design business, Fxwebdevelopment, has designed websites for a respected Limerickbased accountancy firm as well as a local auctioneer group.
He claimed he did not believe his clients would have any problem with his extreme views. Speaking to potential recruits Kavanagh outlined plans for a BNP-style group who would push for tighter immigration but be prepared to use violence “in defence” against opposition voices.
He proposes they “build a movement of people demanding that Ireland should be for the Irish… Let them use the violence and strike back in defence. Inflict violence when required.
“If we avoid the incitement of hate act and be out in the open and not seen as racist. Maybe being similar to the BNP down the line.” His small group has been monitoring a hotel in Limerick that houses asylum-seekers.
Kavanagh even planned to pose as a Polish immigrant himself to gain access to the centre as part of what his group called a “field trip” to spy on the immigrants.
Despite attempts to put forward an outwardly peaceful image for his sick plans Kavanagh has confessed online to attacking an Indian restaurant owner in Abbeyfeale, Limerick.
Kavanagh posted pictures online and bragged of his activities to his skinhead cronies.
In a disturbing post he explained how he ran into a restaurant after removing a sign advertising the business and attempted to assault the owner with it.
“I got out of the car, went in, threw the sign over the Indian’s head while he was bending down doing something,” he confessed.
Kavanagh then tried to take a picture of his victim, but his Blackberry ran out of power.
He said: “Damn, it would have been such a good photo.”
Questioned about the confrontation, Kavanagh claimed he was the victim in the situation and had merely been removing what he said was an “illegal sign”.