A bus and car burn on O’Connell Street in central Dublin, where violent scenes unfolded Thursday following a knife attack. A 5-year-old girl is receiving emergency medical treatment in a Dublin hospital, and a woman and two other children were injured. Irish police said they weren’t treating the case as terror-related, and that a man in his 50s, also hospitalized with serious injuries, is a “person of interest.” (Brian Lawless/PA via AP) (Brian Lawless/Press Association, distributed by the Associated Press)
LONDON — Ireland’s prime minister on Friday condemned anti-immigrant protesters who rampaged through central Dublin after three young children were stabbed, saying the rioters simply wanted to cause chaos, not protect the country’s way of life.
Police made a number of further arrests on Friday evening as they mounted a significant security operation in Dublin to ensure that there was no repeat of Thursday’s disorder. A number of people were taken away in police vans following sporadic altercations.
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