Well holy God. You spend years writing about dirty bollixes and fucking bastards and gutting Ben Affleck with fish knives and devouring his kidneys, and not a peep from anyone. About dragging Michael Flatley through the streets and Samantha Mumba’s knickers. Vin Diesels wall of pants admittedly caused a bit of a stir, collecting the […]
Indymedia have been doing sterling work reporting on the riot and its aftermath. This report examines in detail some of the issues I wrote about in my previous post.
The people who took part in the rioting were largely drawn from the urban poor, mostly disenfranchised young men from impoverished estates around Dublin, people who normally […]
So it comes to this. Make no mistake about the reasons for what happened on Saturday. Do not allow yourselves to be influenced by the political posturing and obfuscation that has arisen and is as inevitable as flies on a corpse. The people responsible for the rioting and destruction were criminals and ‘disaffected’ young teens. […]
Footage of Nassau Street riots here, here and here.
Update: These links now appear to be dead. Here is another link to a long (13min/100mb) section of video footage of the riot.
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Photo Essay from Indymedia
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74507
O’Connell Street 3
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From www.indymedia.ie. Click here for the full set of pictures on indymedia (scroll down all the way)
O’Connell Street 2
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From www.indymedia.ie
Nassau Street 2
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From indymedia.ie
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