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02/26/2006:

"IRA supporters attack police in Dublin"

Several hundred IRA supporters attacked police on Dublin's central boulevard and near the parliament building today to prevent an unprecedented Protestant parade.

In riotous scenes rarely seen in the Republic of Ireland, protesters hurled bottles, bricks and fireworks at police as they tried to clear the hostile crowd from O'Connell Street.
guardian.co.uk