Latest reports from outside Pearse Street Garda station (about 10pm), sixteen people were arrested during the anti-PPP protest outside the Burlington Hotel in Dublin this evening. Nine are being held in Pearse Street, six in Ringsend and one in Donnybrook (these figures have not yet been confirmed however).

A crowd of approximately 60 people converged outside Pearse Street Station and called for the release of the arrested protesters. The senior Garda on duty told the crowd that the arrested people were going to be detained over night.

Tomorrow morning at 10.30am they are all to be charged with Public Order offences in the Dublin District Court (if there are any IE Indymedia heads reading this who are free tomorrow, please try and get down there).

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