Shoppers - and dozens of gardaí - mix on Dublin's O'Connell Street just 48 hours after the riots

Garda outside the General Post Office on O'Connell Street in Dublin following violent scenes in the city centre on Thursday evening. Picture: David Young/PA Wire

Less than 48 hours after the worst unrest seen in the capital in living memory, there were precious few signs on Dublin's O'Connell Street on Saturday afternoon that anything had happened at all.

The site of the burnt out bus at the top of the street had been scrubbed almost completely clean.