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Molesworth Street and Kildare Street, were closed off to due to protests outside Leinster House yesterday. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaillopened for business yesterday after the summer recess. Inside, it was more with a whimper than a bang; outside, it was a different story.
In the chamber and around the House, the atmosphere was somewhat flat – perhaps Government TDs were deflated by the absence of their leaders, or perhaps everyone was suffering from the back-to-school blues. Either way, it was a quiet start to what will undoubtedly be a fractious Dáil term. But that was inside.a couple of hundred far-right demonstrators gathered
to chant, sing, wave an apparent mocked-up guillotine around and occasionally hurl abuse at passersby heading in through the gates. The political antennae of the protesters may be questionable though: Leinster House gossip suggested that a number of senior politicians passed by them unnoticed. “We’re coming for you!” some of them chanted.
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