Archive for the 'Dublin' Category

Analysis of the Riots from Indymedia

Monday, February 27th, 2006

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 [...]

Reflection on a Riot

Monday, February 27th, 2006

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. [...]

Video of Dublin Riots

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

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.
Video
This footage may need the Xvid codec to view it. Download it here.

Must Continue to Consume

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

shoppingcontinues
Originally uploaded by Gurrier.
Photo Essay from Indymedia
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74507

Dublin Riots #2

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

O’Connell Street 3
Originally uploaded by Gurrier.
From www.indymedia.ie. Click here for the full set of pictures on indymedia (scroll down all the way)

Dublin Riots

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

O’Connell Street 2
Originally uploaded by Gurrier.
From www.indymedia.ie

Dublins Burning

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Nassau Street 2
Originally uploaded by Gurrier.
From indymedia.ie

The Lament of the Stringy Goblin

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Ladies and gentlemen I bid you all a tardy welcome to 2006. I hope the proceeding twelve months will find you all in good spirits and genial temperament. For myself I will be providing you with more of the fabulous and outrageous entertainments you have come to enjoy here and I hope they will not [...]