Dublin Riots
Nervous cabinet may speed up laws on facial recognition and hate speech
Thursday’s riots, which have already led to a call for the justice minister to resign, are likely to make law and order a major political issue over the next year
As the dust settled on the still smouldering riots in Dublin city last Friday, Sinn Féin decided to seize the political initiative.
“The gardaí have my full support but given the catastrophic operational failures last night, I have no confidence in the justice minister, and no confidence in the Garda Commissioner,” Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Féin’s president, told reporters. “They should resign, both of them.”
Whether McDonald’s comments will develop into a confidence motion in ...
