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Adds injured police recovering, arrested man released, justice minister statement
Three police officers were injured in the latest anti-immigration protests at a site earmarked for housing asylum seekers in Dublin, authorities said.
It was the latest in a series of clashes at the site in a deprived northern suburb of the Irish capital over the past week.
Police said a planned public gathering at the site on Friday initially “passed off peacefully” before turning into an “incident of public disorder”.
A fire broke out at the building site, with police subjected to “both verbal and physical abuse including rocks, concrete bricks and other objects being thrown at them”, they said in a…
