Riot was ‘work of drunken teenagers’

THE garda chief in charge of policing the loyalist parade in Dublin insisted the riot was the work of drunken teenagers, most of whom did not belong to any political grouping.

Assistant Commissioner Al McHugh said garda intelligence, including information passed on by the PSNI, did not indicate a high grade counter-protest was going to take place.

Mr McHugh said many of those involved in the violence had been drinking in some pubs in Dublin and used the opportunity to commit random violence.