Irish Examiner view: Daft mini-mobs

Anti-lockdown demonstrators during a protest outside Leinster House in Dublin on Saturday.

Saturday's brief clash between two sets of protestors in Dublin underlined how volatile division in this society over a range of measures, especially public health, has become - even if only a tiny number of people were involved in the fiasco. 

A demonstration involving a few hundred, no more,  anti-mask and anti-lockdown activists, including the right-wing National Party, reached Leinster House at 1pm. If left alone their bizarre, anti-science protest would have passed almost unnoticed.