Update Two:
Some 500 people took part in riots on Thursday night following knife attack that left several injured
www.independent.co.uk
People in Dublin have been urged to work from home today after violent riots broke out across Ireland’s capital over a knife attack that left at least five people injured.
Police said 'significant levels' of public disorder and criminal damage were carried out with trams, buses, cars and other public properties set on fire during the clashes.
Police said more than 400 officers in riot gear were deployed to control the violent protests after a stabbing incident that left five injured.
A police cordon was also set up around the Irish Parliament building, Leinster House, and officers from the Mounted Support Unit were in nearby Grafton Street.
Shop windows were routinely smashed and a Foot Locker store was looted. All public transport in the city - trams and buses - was suspended...
Labelling them 'disgraceful scenes', Garda Commissioner Drew Harris
said a 'complete lunatic faction driven by far-right ideology' is behind disorder in the capital.
The four injured people are still in hospital.
Others have posted pics and videos of the vandalism, looting and clashes with police above. Most of the subduing of the knifeman seems to have been done, as posted by others above, by Caio Benicio:
Police have backtracked from their earlier statement that this was not a terror attack:
...at an evening press conference Garda Commissioner Drew Harris stopped short of definitively ruling out a terrorist motive.
“I have never ruled out any possible motive for this attack ... all lines of inquiry are open to determine the motive for this attack,” he said.
President Michael Higgins
has released a
statement:
“All of our thoughts are with each of the children and their families affected by today's horrific attack outside Gaelscoil Coláiste Mhuire in Dublin city centre.
We are particularly thinking of the 5 year old girl and the member of staff caring for her who are both in serious condition in hospital. All of our prayers are with each of them for a full recovery.
The Gardaí deserve all of our support in dealing with this incident. This appalling incident is a matter for the Gardaí and that it would be used or abused by groups with an agenda that attacks the principle of social inclusion is reprehensible and deserves condemnation by all those who believe in the rule of law and democracy.”