Malachi O'Doherty: Kneecap want you to be appalled, yet insist they should be taken seriously - but only some of the time

The smear campaign which the band Kneecap say they are faced with is not something they should be complaining about. For a band so provocative in intent, the appalled reaction to their populist sloganeering is surely a mark of success. They specialise in indulgent outrage and bad boy antics, so what do they expect, papal honours, a CBE?.