{"id":115437,"date":"2021-02-28T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T02:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115437"},"modified":"2021-02-28T10:05:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T02:05:37","slug":"covid-19-23-arrested-following-protest-against-restrictions-in-ireland-3-police-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115437","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: 23 arrested following protest against  restrictions in Ireland; 3 police injured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/AD40\/production\/_117325344_hi065944665.jpg\" alt=\"Arrests at Dublin Covid-19 restrictions protest\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>DUBLIN, Feb 28 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; A total of 23 people have been arrested following a violent protest against COVID-19 restrictions in downtown Dublin on Saturday, said police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three police members were injured during the incident, and one of them needed hospital treatment, said the Irish national police service in a twitter statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to police and local media reports, the protest, organized by different groups, took place on Grafton Street in Dublin City Center on Saturday afternoon, involving hundreds of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The gathering became violent on occasions with members of An Garda Siochana (Irish national police service) targeted with fireworks, missiles and spit,&#8221; said the police statement, adding that police had responded in a professional manner which resulted in calm returning to the city center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A special sitting of Dublin District Court will take place on Saturday night where a number of the arrested persons will be charged, said the statement, adding that a major investigation is now underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ireland is currently under a nationwide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, the government decided to extend the lockdown measures until April 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the current lockdown measures, all people in the country are required to stay within 5 km from home except for essential reasons and all the non-essential businesses have to be closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Irish Department of Health on Saturday evening reported another 738 COVID-19 cases, bringing the national tally to 218,980. To date, the pandemic has claimed 4,313 lives in Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the world is struggling to contain the pandemic, vaccination is underway in Ireland and some other countries with the already-authorized coronavirus vaccines. As of Feb. 24, a total of 391,355 doses had been administered in Ireland, according to official data. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN, Feb 28 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; A total of 23 people have been arrested following a violent protest against COVID-19 restrictions in downtown Dublin on Saturday, said police. Three police members were injured during the incident, and one of them needed hospital treatment, said the Irish national police service in a twitter statement. According to police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}