Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar says the full force of the law will be brought against those involved in violent disorder in Dublin on Thursday
Varadkar says the knife attack and the rioting brought "shame on Ireland"
Thirty-two people have since appeared in court in Dublin in connection with the riot
Garda Commissioner Harris says there was "huge destruction from a riotous mob", which police have blamed on a "lunatic, hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology"
A five-year-old girl was in emergency care following the knife attack. A woman in her 30s and two other children aged five and six were also injured
Officers said they weren't looking for anyone other than a man involved in the incident. Investigators say they're "keeping an open mind" about any motive
We are ending our live coverage of events following rioting in Dublin on Thursday.
Today has seen the clean up begin and condemnation across the political spectrum.
You can keep up to date with the latest news on the BBC News website throughout the evening.
Richard Guiney , CEO of DublinTown - which represents businesses in the city - told the BBC he believes “there were about 15 premises looted” during last night’s disturbances.
“The people involved were not representing the Dublin I know,” he said.
“They’re not the genuine people of Dublin, who I believe are a tolerant and welcoming people.
Image source, Getty ImagesOn Thursday night protests, rioting and violence erupted in Dublin city centre
The unrest followed a stabbing near a primary school in which a woman and three children were injured.
Since Friday morning, businesses have been clearing up the damage to their premises.
Pat Leahy a former assistant Garda commissioner, tells BBC News NI the events of last night were “an attack on our democracy” which represent “a seminal moment for our state”.
“This is an emerging crisis that is going to challenge our democracy, because that’s what the far right do – this is their aim, to create fear and chaos, which they absolutely did,” Leahy says.
“This has been developing now for about 18 months to two years.
"They got their opportunity yesterday and they exploited it to the Nth degree.”
Leahy adds that the response must be led by the government, not just the police.
Gaelscoil Cholaiste Mhuire - the school Thursday's knife attack happened outside - says it is "deeply shocked and saddened" following the attack.
In a statement to RTÉ it said: "Our thoughts are with our pupils and our creche worker colleague who were injured and their families.
"The wider school community who are affected by this incident are also in our thoughts.
"Offers of support have been pouring in and are greatly appreciated. Our school has implemented our critical incident management plan.
"Psychologists from the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) have been with us, supporting and advising the staff in our efforts to assist our school community."
The school has appealed for privacy.
Image source, PA MediaMcEntee is asked whether she supports Garda Commissioner Drew Harris and she replies that she has full confidence in him.
"Gardaí have responded in an excellent way," she says
"What we saw in a very short space of time were a number of people who wanted to be violent, but what we also saw were significant gardai coming together."
She adds that last night saw the largest number of gardaí in riot gear ever deployed at a single moment.
McEntee also criticises people calling for her or Harris to resign.
"Anyone who wishes to sow division at a moment in time when we need to be unified in our response to a group of thugs – they should really think about what their priorities are here," she says.
McEntee is asked several times by journalists whether she offered the taoiseach (prime minister) her resignation.
Sinn Féin has called for her to quit. The party also wants the police chief to resign.
McEntee says rumours she offered to quit are not true and that she has no intention of resigning.
Justice Minister Helen McEntee has been speaking to reporters outside Government Buildings in Dublin.
She starts by condemning both the knife attack and subsequent riot.
"What happened yesterday evening following this awful, tragic act was nothing but thuggery," she says.
She adds that rioters used the "horrendous event" to wreak havoc in Dublin.
"They will be responded to with force and gardaí respided in the most appropriate way," she says.
"They have restored order to this city and they will continue to do so."
Aoife Moore
BBC Dublin Reporter
There had been criticism before that far right protests had not been handled with a hard enough line.
Ireland's police chief Drew Harris said that was because they don’t want to embolden the far right and encourage people to join these types of groups because of so-called garda brutality or heavy handedness
That appears to be not the way they are going forward.
It will be a much tougher way of policing tonight.
I believe across the island any officers with riot training have been brought to Dublin.
Dublin riot: Sinn Féin leader criticises police response
Julian O'Neill
BBC News NI crime and justice correspondent
The water cannon being sent by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to An Garda Síochána are being borrowed under mutual aid arrangements.
It is not the first time the vehicles have been requested.
Two of the vehicles were deployed, as a precaution, when Elizabeth II made a state visit to Ireland in 2011.
The PSNI has them in reserve for riot control.
Their deployment in Northern Ireland has been infrequent in recent years – they have only been used twice in the past eight years.
Image source, Getty ImagesGardaí have confirmed that they have acquired two water cannon from the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
The cannon - seen above in an image from a riot in Belfast in 2005 - will be sent to Dublin this evening.
They will be operated by officers from An Garda Síochána.
Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris, who is in Dublin for the meeting of the British-Irish Council, says there’s an onus on elected politicians to combat the rise of the far right.
Heaton-Harris adds that he is not in a position "to suggest to the Irish as to how they could and should react".
But he referred to the rise of the British National Party in England.
“We had in English politics the rise of the British National Party only a few years ago, they were elected to the European Parliament, MEPs were elected to the European Parliament in two regions of the United Kingdom,” he says.
Image source, PA Media“On the rise of the far right, it is up to democratically elected politicians to be able to articulate the concerns of their electorate and we need to do that better."
He says when mainstream politicians fail to properly debate issues around migration and immigration they “leave a vacuum for other people who might not be as benign as we are".
Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign says Saturday's planned protest in Dublin has been deferred for a week.
The group says the protest starting point was near the scene of the knife attack.
"Firstly, our march was due to begin near the scene of the attack; out of respect and for obvious reasons we decided that this was not an appropriate starting point this weekend," the organisation said.
It says another reason for the deferral is that there are "threats and menace in the air" and it "simply cannot guarantee that there will not be further outbreaks" of violence in the city.
More from McDonald as she blames the rioting on a “mob fuelled by hate” who were allowed to shut down the city.
She said the “cold hard truth” is that “the gardaí lost control of the centre of our capital city".
“The idea that this violence was unforeseeable is frankly nonsense. These hate-filled mobs have threatened and brought violence to our streets before,” the Sinn Féin leader says.
“This shouldn’t have happened and, let me be very clear, it can never happen again."
McDonald says the reason she has no confidence in Harris is "an unacceptable, unprecedented collapse in policing" and that problems leading up to Thursday's events had been building for months.
She says she has no confidence in how Dublin is being policed.
“The people of this city have the right to be safe on their streets, in their homes and in their communities," she adds.
“The gardaí have my full support but, given the catastrophic operational failures last night, I have no confidence in the justice minister, and no confidence in the Garda Commissioner.”
Mary Lou McDonald tells a press conference in Dublin that she has no confidence in Garda Commissioner Drew Harris.
Harris has been head of Ireland's police service for five years.
She also says she has no confidence in Justice Minister Helen McEntee.
Earlier the Social Democrats, a much smaller opposition party in the Republic of Ireland, also called for Harris to go.
The leader of Sinn Féin, Mary Lou McDonald, is due to speak in Dublin shortly.
The leaders of the Republic of Ireland's two largest government parties - Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael - spoke earlier and now we will hear from Ms McDonald, who is leader of the opposition.