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Dissident repubicans fail to disrupt Queen’s visit to war memorial (Irish Central)
Dissident Republicans have again failed to disrupt the Queen’s first visit to Ireland.
Supporters of the Eirigi Socialist Republican group were kept well away as the Queen laid a wreath to the 50,000 Irish servicemen who died in World War 1.
The service – at the Irish War Memorial in Islandbridge – saw the Queen lay another wreath, less than 24 hours after she commemorated the leaders of the 1916 Rising at the Garden of Remembrance.
Republican sympathizers took exception to the invitation to five former Brigadiers with the UDA loyalist paramilitary group to attend Wednesday’s memorial service to those Irishmen who fought and died for the King of England in the first World War.
Their angry protests were thwarted once again as Irish police threw a ring of steel around the first British monarch to visit Dublin in a hundred years.
With 20 protestors in police custody after Tuesday evening’s disturbances near the Garden of Remembrance, tensions were high throughout the morning.