I was waiting at a busstop in dublin today with about 40 other people en route home after a night out and trip back to a ladies apartment.. and then 200-300 'scumbags' come around a corner chanting something about the IRA (they were saying that what todays riot was about - but it mostly just random violence, looting etc just for the sake of it) then they came charging down the street and everybody at the bus-stop freaked out and ran in the opposite direction.
My curiosity almost got the better of me:
after watching the riot police clear streets for about an hour I almost got taken out of it by a police baton charge - I was just standing there bewildered - and then I noticed a cop was running at me with his club in the air.
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