The Dublin Community Blog

After the rapid changes of yesterday the situation inside the Cathedral appears to have calmed down somewhat. The stand-off continues and the Church of Ireland says it was instructed by the Department of Justice to withdraw from all negotiations involving the asylum seekers. With things now in the hands of the Gardai they seem to be content to wait, for the moment, but I suspect once they decide to act it will be swift and sudden allowing the protesters little time to react and hopefully prevent them harming themselves.

While things were quiet inside there was some action outside the Cathedral with pro-asylum and anti-asylum protesters meeting outside the Cathedral. I went to the Cathedral for a while today to see what was happening and took some photographs. The Gardai kept things low key but still managed to keep the situation from boiling over and stepped in to calm things down when individual protesters got over excited. You can find the photographs at this page.