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Images show clashes at the scene in Dublin after a suspected stabbing outside a school, which left five people in hospital, including three children. Police declared a major incident and threw up a cordon around Parnell Square in the heart of the Irish capital but said they do not suspect a terror motive. IMAGES
The streets of Dublin are uncannily quiet, as the Irish capital settles into the country's six-week coronavirus lockdown. On Thursday, Ireland became the first EU nation to return to lockdown with citizens told to stay home, non-essential businesses closed and bars and retaurants reduced to takeaway service only. IMAGES
Chinese Premier Li Qiang is welcomed to Dublin by Irish Transport Minister Eamon Ryan on his first visit to Ireland. Li is due to meet Irish President Michael Higgins and take part in a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Leo Varadkar tomorrow January 17. IMAGES
The morning after rioters torched vehicles and looted shops following a knife attack outside a school in Dublin, shopkeepers and handymen get to work cleaning up the burnt cars and broken glass left on O'Connell Street, one of the Irish capital's most famous thoroughfares. Thursday night's unrest came after three children were injured in a stabbing near the centre of the Irish capital, resulting in the worst violence in decades which authorities blamed on right-wing groups. IMAGES
A store is looted in Dublin where clashes with police took place and vehicles were torched after a suspected stabbing that injured three children that social media rumours attributed to a foreign national. A five-year-old girl sustained serious injuries and four other people, including two children, were taken to hospital after the incident at a city centre primary school, which occurred shortly after 1:30 pm (1330 GMT). Hundreds of people took to the streets after rumours circulated of the attacker's nationality, some fighting with police and attacking vehicles, according to an AFP journalist. IMAGES
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