Dublin Riots
Feb. 25th, 2006 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Dublin Riots
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Oops - looks like they're rioting in Dublin.
Apparently someone thought it would be a good idea for loyalists victims of terrorism to have a march in Dublin. Fair enough, most people did the sensible thing and avoided it.
But the republicans couldn't stay away, and decided to have their own counter-demonstration - a wreath laying ceremony at the site of the Loyalist bombing of Dublin in 1974, perilessly close to the route of the march.
Needless to say, violence erupted, though some reports seem to suggest that the perputrators were gangs of youths not actually connected to either side.
It's all a bit of a shambles, really, but I'm glad we decided not to go shopping in Dublin today.
