rioting in Dublin

[waider]

RTÉ, BBC. Mildly disappointed to note that the BBC reports it as a "Republican riot"; it's no more a Republican riot than the annual May Day fracas is a socialist riot. Per the Irish Times coverage, which I'm not linking because they're a registration-requiring shower of suckweasels:

The violence that swept O'Connell St in Dublin is spreading to Kildare St as a protest against the Love Ulster Parade appears to have been hijacked by rioting youths and a lesser number of republican demonstrators.

(my emphasis).

Comments

Re: Weird

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

Latest version of the Beeb report mentions "fireworks", but nothing from Molotov's happy hour. Still the former might explain stories of the latter (and might indicate a degree of planing, at least by a small number of eejits).