Post by RedFlag32 on Mar 4, 2006 20:57:56 GMT
Organisers hope to hold new rally in Dublin on day British queen visits
Ciarán Barnes
04/03/2006
Organisers of the Love Ulster rally are planning to parade through Dublin on the same day that the British queen visits the Irish capital.
At a press conference in Belfast yesterday, loyalists involved in last weekend’s aborted march through the city signified their intention to return South.
They said the most likely date for a second loyalist parade along Dublin’s O’Connell Street was the same day that Elizabeth II would visit Ireland.
With a huge security presence guaranteed in Dublin for the British queen’s visit, Love Ulster organisers are confident that there will be no repeat of the violence that engulfed the city last week.
Forty people were arrested and more than 100 injured in the worst rioting to occur in Dublin in 25 years.
A date has yet to be set for Elizabeth Windsor’s historic visit to Ireland, the first by a British monarch since the founding of the Southern state in 1922.
Daily Ireland understands that, when the date is confirmed, Love Ulster will go public with details of its second Dublin rally.
Spokesman Willie Frazer said: “We would like to go back as soon as possible.
“But there is a lot of questions that are going to have to be answered by members of the Dáil.
“We want reassurances from them. We don`t want to have people batoned off the streets of Dublin so we can parade down through Dublin.”
William Wilkinson, another of the Love Ulster organisers, called on the Irish government to hold an inquiry into the Dublin riots.
“One of the issues that we will be pressing for will be an inquiry,” he said.
“For any of you who are aware of similar events historically, in Northern Ireland when civil rights marches were attacked, the government of the day then had the Cameron inquiry [in 1969].
“We feel that is the most constructive step that the Irish government could take. It could address on-the-ground, practical issues on the day of why this trouble was allowed to roll on.”
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said that the decision to allow another march would be for the Garda Síochána.
Tánaiste Mary Harney has said Love Ulster marchers should have the right to parade in Dublin.
Republican Sinn Féin has vowed to mount another protest.
Ciarán Barnes
04/03/2006
Organisers of the Love Ulster rally are planning to parade through Dublin on the same day that the British queen visits the Irish capital.
At a press conference in Belfast yesterday, loyalists involved in last weekend’s aborted march through the city signified their intention to return South.
They said the most likely date for a second loyalist parade along Dublin’s O’Connell Street was the same day that Elizabeth II would visit Ireland.
With a huge security presence guaranteed in Dublin for the British queen’s visit, Love Ulster organisers are confident that there will be no repeat of the violence that engulfed the city last week.
Forty people were arrested and more than 100 injured in the worst rioting to occur in Dublin in 25 years.
A date has yet to be set for Elizabeth Windsor’s historic visit to Ireland, the first by a British monarch since the founding of the Southern state in 1922.
Daily Ireland understands that, when the date is confirmed, Love Ulster will go public with details of its second Dublin rally.
Spokesman Willie Frazer said: “We would like to go back as soon as possible.
“But there is a lot of questions that are going to have to be answered by members of the Dáil.
“We want reassurances from them. We don`t want to have people batoned off the streets of Dublin so we can parade down through Dublin.”
William Wilkinson, another of the Love Ulster organisers, called on the Irish government to hold an inquiry into the Dublin riots.
“One of the issues that we will be pressing for will be an inquiry,” he said.
“For any of you who are aware of similar events historically, in Northern Ireland when civil rights marches were attacked, the government of the day then had the Cameron inquiry [in 1969].
“We feel that is the most constructive step that the Irish government could take. It could address on-the-ground, practical issues on the day of why this trouble was allowed to roll on.”
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said that the decision to allow another march would be for the Garda Síochána.
Tánaiste Mary Harney has said Love Ulster marchers should have the right to parade in Dublin.
Republican Sinn Féin has vowed to mount another protest.
