2006 Dublin riots

The 2006 Dublin riots were a series of riots. They happened in Dublin, Ireland on 25 February 2006. The riots happened after the Gardai (police) tried to move a crowd(large group of people) of people who were blocking the road as a protest against a unionist demonstration. Fourteen people where hurt in the riots. Six of the people hurt were police.

2006 Dublin Riots Media

• A protester throws a cone at riot police

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  Car on fire on Nassau Street

• Looking northward up O'Connell Street during the riots. In the background a black plume of smoke from the burning contents of a skip engulfs The Spire; in the foreground is another, upturned skip amongst building debris

• Gardaí on a rubbish-strewn O'Connell Street beside the Parnell monument after rioters dispersed