Todays Dublin Riots
Image taken from indymedia.
The dublin riots flickr pool which has 93 photos in it at the moment. Great stuff from The Dublin Metroblog and others on getting them up there as well as reportage on events. Indymedia also has reports and a photo essay. Dec’s Rambling also put up some photos he took, they’re at flickr.
RTE has realaudio clips up from it’s special extended edition of 6one. The links are at the bottom of this article.
Piaras Kelly has opinions on the riots from a PR perspective. And DublinKa is moved to quote Yeats on the whole thing. There’s of course giant boards threads in politics and after hours already. Slugger has loads of posts and comments. And low brow culture sums it all up for everyone with a very simple post title: Fuck.
Update: Also see: Dublin Riots video footage again for more links.
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Is American opinion and culture crowding out all others?
Jesus, some of those are pretty frightening.
Ireland
Comment by Stranger — February 25, 2006 @ 8:21 pm
[…] Glad I didn’t pop along for a gawk amn’t I? But if one good thing comes from this, hopefully it’ll help persuade people that Sinn Féin and their supporters aren’t really interested in peace and democracy. The Community at Large has a collection of links in this post […]
Pingback by Pretty Cunning » Jaysus, lads. You can’t be doing that. — February 25, 2006 @ 8:50 pm
Yes it was a pity the people of Dublin couldnt come out with their little union jacks and wave the loyalists on with pride, maybe this would lead the Catholics in the North to do they same.
Comment by Cormac — February 25, 2006 @ 9:49 pm
[…] Todays Dublin Riots links to Dublin Riots Flickr pool […]
Pingback by Holy Shmoly! :: Clashes in Dublin over loyalist march — February 26, 2006 @ 10:02 am
There’s a Wikipedia entry already.
Comment by tim — February 26, 2006 @ 6:12 pm
Geared up sends word that ‘loveulster’ was one of the most popular flickr tags of the last 24 hours. Blog post with screenshot. Thanks Robin.
Comment by danger — February 26, 2006 @ 6:54 pm
Lets all go up North to Belfast and try to march down the Falls road. I wonder what would happen.
Bertie Aherne et al seem “really suprised”. What planet do they hail from.
Comment by Piper — February 28, 2006 @ 7:36 pm
i like most decent people am appalled and disgusted
by the levels of violence that took place in dublin at the #
weekend i hope that these so called republiclicans
republicicans what a joke these scumbags should be
hung drawn & quatered i was amazed no one was killed
there were not enough police also no water cannon
pathetic.
Comment by adrian miller — March 1, 2006 @ 12:01 pm
There was a lack of Garda control from the agreed Orange Order march down O’Connell Street. Are people that naive to think the peace process is that successful that the Orange Order marching down O’Connell St will be met with smiles and sympathy? The Gardai and those that agreed this was a good idea need to extract their heads from the cosy place they are obviously lodged and offer more protection to the citizens of Dublin who beleive they are in control!!!
Comment by SURPRISED — March 6, 2006 @ 1:57 pm
The question is why was the march was let go ahead, even though the riots where wrong and we just done what the loyalists wanted. Now the loyalists have another way of claiming they are the victums in all of this, and wont admit that they where just as involed as republicans where in the troubles. The orange men who where marching are connected to the UVF. Whould the british goverment allow the IRA march through the streets of their capital??
Comment by Aidan Connolly — March 11, 2006 @ 4:56 pm
Allowing the Orangemen to march through Dublin is like letting the Klu Klux Klan march through New Orleans. No, it’s much worse. The Orange Order by its very doctrine are “Anti-Catholic, Anti-Irish” bigots. Aren’t we forgetting that these people traditionally burn effigies of the Pope and the Irish National flag every year? Does anyone actually believe that had they been allowed to march through Dublin that they wouldn’t have stopped outside that GPO to spit and bang their drums louder, just as they did once they reached Leinster House.
Allowing them to come to Dublin in the first place is counter productive to the peace process, as it further alienates and isolates Republicans, causing deep anger and frustrations to explode into violence because they increasingly feel betrayed. The Irish state only encourages young men and women to join dissident Republican groups because they feel completely betrayed yet again. The Irish state should take note. Young men and women in pubs throughout N. Ireland can now even be heard uttering the words, “Another Civil War is needed!”
Comment by Glenn Gordon — March 12, 2006 @ 7:25 pm
AS AN IRISH EX-PATRIATE LIVING IN LONDON, I CAN REMEMBER A REPUBLICAN MARCH IN HOLLOWAY ROAD. JUST AS IN DUBLIN, THERE WERE SOME LOW-LIFE POLITICAL ACTIVISTS WHO THOUGHT THAT THIS WARRANTED SOME OLD- FASHIONED THUGGERY. AS A,SUPPOSEDLY, TOLERANT, EDUCATED PEOPLE, DO WE GIVE A SHIT ABOUT SOME GUYS IN FUNNY HATS, WHO WANT TO BANG DRUMS? BANG SOME PRETTY WOMEN INSTEAD AND LEARN A LITTLE ABOUT LOVE.
Comment by p kelly — May 4, 2006 @ 5:19 pm