In fairness he pointed out the hypocrisy of Adams standing for the next election in Louth, the same county where the remains of Jean McConville were found and where Tom Oliver was abducted and murdered by the IRA in the eighties.
People hate him because he says things that they don't want to hear but are close to the bone IMO. Mind you he doesn't do himself any favours with the language he uses some times.
RE: social welfare
Not sure it's small potatoes, I'd say it's big enough.