The Dublin Councillor behind a move to block a Loyalist parade in the city says it will "probably" turn violent.

THE Garda Siochana had a difficult and sensitive task to carry out in persuading Willie Frazer and his motley crew not to come to Dublin tomorrow to demand that the Irish flag be removed from Leinster House (where it wouldn’t be flying anyway because it doesn’t fly over the houses of the Oireachtas when the Dáil and Seanad are not sitting).

A senior member of the Orange Order has appealed to the Government for permission to parade in Dublin.

THOUSANDS of private and public sector workers will converge on Dublin this afternoon to express outrage at the Government’s handling of the economic crisis.

REFRESHING signs of Ireland’s changing political climate will be seen on the streets of both the Republic and the North this summer.

William Frazier, of Families Acting for Innocent Relatives (FAIR), the South Armagh Protestant Victims group, wrote to An Garda Síochána and the Department of Foreign Affairs last week, seeking a meeting to discuss the possibility of organising another Love Ulster march in Dublin for mid-September.

GARDAÍ will maintain a strong visible presence in Dublin today as part of a large security operation for this evening’s historic Six Nations rugby match between Ireland and England at Croke Park.

THERE could hardly be a more eloquent intervention than Michael Hogan’s hand of friendship gesture in the simmering controversy over the singing of God Save the Queen at today’s historic Six Nation’s rugby match between Ireland and England at Croke Park, the symbolic heartland of Gaelic sport.

THE security clampdown for US President George W Bush’s stopover at Shannon Airport in the early hours of yesterday morning was in stark contrast with the garda presence at the Love Ulster march which sparked vicious riots in Dublin.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested three more people in connection with the riots that accompanied last weekend's loyalist march in the capital.

THE Government’s insistence that gardaí had no reason to expect the kind of violence seen in Dublin last Saturday gives credence to the widely-held perception of deficient intelligence gathering.

The Democratic Unionist Party has tabled a motion in the British parliament condemning Saturday's rioting in Dublin.

JUSTICE MINISTER Michael McDowell is merely being pragmatic in ruling out any question of a public inquiry into the riot in Dublin on Saturday because it would largely confirm an outcome of which we are already aware.

Sinn Féin has blamed loyalists returning from the abandoned Love Ulster march in Dublin for riots in Portadown, Co Armagh, early yesterday morning.

THE radio was bleating warnings about the route of the Love Ulster march as I headed to work on Saturday morning in Dublin.

LET there be no equivocation: those who orchestrated the rabid intolerance witnessed in the centre of Dublin on Saturday can only be considered as implacable enemies of this State.