I mean, why would anyone have a reason to dislike the IRA or its "alleged" former(?) leader. What fakers.
Sounds more like a secret austerity plot to me, probably Zionist in nature.
Let me put it this way.
When SF were polling 5-6% of the vote during the 2000s (and the IRA's violence was a lot more recent), there wasn't anything like the intensity of outrage coming from the Republic's establishment that there is now.
Well duh. When fringey ideas/parties (or even non-fringey ones) become popular, people opposed to them will also start speaking out against them more.