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Gardaí have arrested a total of six people, five men and a woman, in connection with today s anti-lockdown protest in Cork.
Two of those were arrested in Cork City, one in north Co Cork, one in Kerry and a man and a woman in Kildare.
The two men arrested at the rally in Cork were for breaches of the Health Act and the Public Order Act.
The arrests in north Cork, Kerry and Kildare were for failing to comply with a direction of a garda.
Gardaí say they believed all four were travelling to the anti-lockdown rally, in contravention of public health regulations restricting movement beyond 5km of a person s home.
LATEST: Man arrested in relation to alleged firework attack at Dublin protest
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A man aged in his 30s has been arrested in connection with an alleged firework attack on gardaí at a violent protest in Dublin at the weekend.
Gardaí said the man was arrested this morning and is being detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act at Irishtown Garda Station.
He can be questioned for up to three days.
Gardaí had been searching for a man following an incident during the violent protests in the capital on Saturday during which a rocket cannon firework was fired in the direction of officers on Grafton Street.
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