Protesters drowned out by water cannon and riot squad

AN empty pint bottle of cider was hurled from the crowd and struck a female garda. Seconds later the riot squad was moved to the front line.

The bottle was one of a number of objects thrown, mostly plastic bottles, but also some bricks, parts of slates, sticks and one fire cracker.

After a six-mile, largely incident free, but noisy march from the city centre to the Ashtown Gate of Phoenix Park, the protesters stopped 200 yards from the garda line.