Riot was easily predictable

THE report to the Government from top-level garda commanders declares that "intelligence saw no plan for violence".

In the Daily Ireland on Thursday, February 23 - 48 hours before the parade - Ciarán Barnes wrote about the Republican Sinn Féin counter-demonstration. Under the headline "Loyalists may carry Dublin bomber pictures" he went on to write that "Continuity IRA also vowed to disrupt the parade".

Surely our gardaí in their Special Detective Unit or elsewhere, should be monitoring that paper in particular.