A man has been arrested in connection with a firework attack on gardai at an anti-lockdown protest in Dublin city centre.
The incident took place at the march against the current Covid-19 restrictions on Grafton Street over the weekend.
And gardai have now confirmed that a man in his 30s has been arrested in connection with the incident.
He is being held at Irishtown Garda Station in the capital.
A spokesman said: "A man in his 30s was arrested this morning, Tuesday, March 2, and is currently detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939 at Irishtown Garda Station.
"The investigation is ongoing."
It comes after Tanaiste Leo Varadkar said Saturday’s gathering was not a protest but a “riot.”
Clashes between protesters and gardai in Dublin city centre left three officers injured, including one who was taken to hospital.
Some 23 people were arrested in disturbances which saw fireworks shot in the direction of gardai, public transport halted and St Stephen’s Green closed.
Leo told Newstalk: “There’s no excuse for using that kind of violence to advance a political cause, no matter what that cause is.
“I think we’re just lucky that somebody didn’t get seriously injured or killed.
“I think the gardai did an amazing job, they took control of the situation really quickly and got control of the situation very quickly thereafter.
“The fact that we saw people brought to court that very night was a really good example of very swift and very effective policing.
“In a pandemic really there shouldn’t be any protests. I’m a great believer in free speech and nobody ever wants to ban protests, but gatherings of this nature are not allowed in level five lockdown.
“While social distance protests are possible this certainly wasn’t that.”
