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Dublin cancels their annual Saint Patrick's Day festival for the second year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event will instead be held virtually on a special online TV channel.
2021-01-20

European Union officials send a letter to U.S. attorney general Eric Holder with seven detailed questions requesting concrete explanations about the country's data snooping programs and how it affects EU citizens ahead of a meeting in Dublin this Friday.
2013-06-11

Police in Dublin remove the Occupy Dame Street camp during an overnight raid.
2012-03-8

Thousands of people are expected to demonstrate in Dublin against European Union - International Monetary Fund budget cuts.
2011-07-16

A suspect package is found in Dublin ahead of the Queen's visit.
2011-05-17

Tony Blair is met with a three-hundred person antiwar demonstration and has a small number of individuals throw objects (shoes, bottles and eggs), and encounters an attempted citizen's arrest for war crimes at Eason's in Dublin, Ireland, at his first public book signing for "A Journey"; four are arrested. Clashes between protesters and police lead to the closure of businesses and the Luas tram system.
2010-09-4

One of the ten people arrested in the United States for involvement in an alleged Russian spy ring is said to have used a false Irish passport, the second time this has happened recently and following the expulsion of an Israeli Dublin embassy official in protest over a similar misuse.
2010-06-29

More than half a million people fill the streets of Dublin for the parade there.
2010-03-17

A national strike by taxi drivers causes disruption across Ireland, stopping work at the country's three main airports, closing Dublin's O'Connell Street completely and blocking other streets as the High Court orders protesters to leave their sit-in at Commission for Taxi Regulation headquarters. [http:--www.rte.ie-news-2010-0309-taxi.html (RTÉ)] [http:--www.irishtimes.com-newspaper-breaking-2010-0309-breaking22.html ("The Irish Times")] [http:--breakingnews.iol.ie-news-ireland-taxi-drivers-protest-at-three-main-airports-449304.html (Ireland Online)]date=July 2019
2010-03-9

Slovakia admits responsibility for a major bomb alert on Dorset Street in Dublin, Ireland, after planting explosives on a civilian as a test.
2010-01-5