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

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[anonymous]

Obviously the Irish times can mindread now.

[waider]

This scintillating commentary brought to you by Smart Telecom. Geez. Bloody anonymous posters. I really should filter them.

Weird

[mopti]

I cannot figure who gains from the riot. Sinn Fein can expect to lose some of the soft-"we've-officially-given-up-violence-haven't-we-Mary-Lou-McDonald" vote, but I doubt the PDs engineered the lads to throw the bricks to get that outcome.

Re: Weird

[eejitalmuppet]

The Beeb article linked it to "Republican Sinn Fein", as opposed to Sinn Fein proper. You and waider are probably better-placed than I to judge the likelihood of that.

Re: Weird

[waider]

Sure, but linked to them as organisers of the counter-protest. Doesn't make them organisers of the riot (although granted it's entirely possible).

Re: Weird

[eejitalmuppet]

Fair point. There's a large part of me that thinks that organising a counter-protest is always likely to result in trouble, because the planet has no shortage of assholes (I'm tempted to compare to the small number of idiots it takes to start a soccer riot, but that's perhaps a little tastelss, given the subject matter surrounding the events in Dublin) . . .

[mopti]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlNoEqO2mUY

http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=pgIlZgt4XV8&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//static12.youtube.com/get_still.php%3Fvideo_id%3DpgIlZgt4XV8

[waider]

Yup, card-carrying republicans every one of 'em, eh?