Anti-Islamisation group Pegida is to launch it's Irish branch tomorrow outside the GPO in Dublin.
Counter-rallies have been organised in response by anti-racism groups.
Pegida has been criticised in Europe for being highly conservative on immigration.
Peter O'Loughlin of Identity Ireland who support Pegida says they have over 400 members.
He believes we must understand the difference between refugees and economic migrants
But Dr Ali Selim of the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland in Clonskeagh says a group with a similar ideology tried to start something a few years ago, and failed
Cover photo shows participants in the United Against Fascism (UAF) march in Edinburgh last March, as part of a counter demo to the planned Pegida Scotland rally. In the end, that rally didn't take place.
