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
Adrian Weckler, The Irish and Sunday Independent's tech editor, was on the streets of Dublin on Thursday night.
"I am a little bit shocked, because in decades of living in Dublin, I have never seen anything like this," he tells BBC News NI.
"There were parts of Dublin that seemed to be literally on fire," he adds.
Dublin rioters have brought shame on Ireland, Leo Varadkar says
Image source, ReutersTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar has just finished holding a press conference addressing the stabbings in Dublin yesterday and the riots which followed.
For those of you just joining us, here's a look back over the key lines:
The press conference with the Irish PM has now come to an end.
Varadkar is asked by a journalist what he would say to people who feel that Dublin is unsafe.
"I don't agree with that," he says, adding that both the stabbings and the riot were "exceptional events" and were brought under control quickly.
He says there will be a large garda presence on the streets in the coming days and over the weekend.
"We encourage people to go about their normal business and don't allow the people who want to take the city away from us to think that they have succeeded."
Asked what he would say to people who are concerned by immigration, Vardkar says Ireland would be a "vastly inferior" place without it.
"Ireland is a great country and a country that is formed by migration in both direction," he says.
"Irish people going all over the world to build new lives and people coming to Ireland to build new lives."
He says the government understands that people have concerns and migration must be managed in a proper way.
"What they witnessed yesterday is not reflective of the Irish people," he says of foreigners who live in Ireland.
"Ireland is a country like any other; we're not immune to violence that other cities around the world have seen," Varadkar says.
He adds that this does not mean Dublin isn't safe.
"It is safe," he says.
The PM then urges people to continue "to go about their business as always", adding that there will be a heightened gardai presence throughout the city.
"Ireland is a great country formed by migration in both directions," he says.
In a bid to reassure the "hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland who are people of colour", who "might be afraid", Varadkar says the riots were "actions of tiny minority not reflective of Irish people".
Vardkar says it is "a hard judgement call" for gardaí to make in terms of policing protests.
"There are protests and sometimes they will seek to provoke the gardí because they want to escalate the situation and gardai have to make a judgement," he says.
"Up until now, such as the recent protest outside the Dáil (Irish parliament), a judgement was made to police them in a certain way to not play into the hands of the protesters to provoke an excessive response."
However, Varadkar says yesterday's events are in a" "completely different category".
He says hundreds of gardai were on the scene quickly with riot gear and helped bring the situation under control.
Varadkar continues,saying those who rioted in Dublin overnight "want to blame other people for their actions," but insists: "They are responsible for their own individual actions".
He continues: "I don't care what their background is...I don't care who their apologists are. They're to blame."
Varadkar says just after lunchtime reports came through of the stabbing in Parnell Square East.
He says a number of things could have developed and it was only a few hours after the attack that it became clear that things were "going to go the way they went".
"Action was taken from mid-afternoon, early evening," he adds.
He says there will be a review of events to see if things could have been done better, but emphasised the people responsible for crimes "are those who commit them".
Varadkar says there is the potential for more violence and that protests are being organised online at the moment.
He says An Garda Síochána is "operating on the basis that there could be a recurrence of these events both over the course of the weekend and into the future".
The Irish PM says the government will look at updating laws to meet the social media age.
The PM continues by saying he was pleased with the gardaí response to the riots.
He says things could have been worse and thanks those who intervened to stop the violence.
He adds that he has confidence in Justice Minister Helen McEntee, a senior member of his Fine Gael party.
Varadkar adds that there were about 500 people involved in the riot, and that 400 officers were on the streets within an hour and a half.
He says gardaí were able to contain the situation to a small part of north inner city and bring it under control by midnight.
"More work's going to be needed to be done over the next few days" in response to both the stabbing and riot, Varadkar says.
He adds: "We haven't had a riot of this nature in decades", adding that gardaí "responded properly".
Mr Varadkar says he has met Garda Commissioner Drew Harris since the violence and has full confidence in him and his officers.
He says they contained the riot and brought the city back under control.
Varadkar says a review will have to be carried out into the events and response of last night, but says people need to be 100% behind An Garda Síochána.
Varadkar says the government will be relentless in its pursuit of those responsible for the violence.
He says the justice minister will co-ordinate with the garda commissioner to ensure Ireland does not witness such scenes ever again.
"Being Irish is more than saluting tricolour and beating your chest," Varadker says in his strong-worded condemnation of the rioters.
He says it means "living up to ideals and acting with compassion" as he calls for the nation for us to remember "who we really are".
Varadkar pays tribute to gardaí, particularly those who answered the call from all over the country.
"As a country we need to reclaim Ireland, we need to take it away from the cowards who hide behind masks and try to terrify us with violence," he says.
"We need to reclaim Ireland from the criminals who seek any excuse to unleash horror on our streets."
The Irish PM pledges to use full resources of law and state to punish those involved in the "grotesque events" and will put in place measures to ensure that any repeat events "will meet the full extent of the law".
Varadkar continues, hitting out at the rioters whose first reaction to the stabbing was to "burn our city".
He says that as a result of the rioters' actions, pregnant women in Dublin's Rotunda Hospital were "made to feel unsafe and in danger".
Varadkar adds that the rioters brought "shame on Dublin, shame on Ireland, as well as on themselves and their families".
"They do not to it out of any sense of patriotism, however warped", he says, adding that the violence stems instead from "hate".
"Looting shops was more important to them than protecting the lives of our children," Varadkar adds.
Leo Varadkar says there were two terrible attacks in Dublin on Thursday which brought shame to Ireland - the stabbing followed by rioting.
"This is not who we are and not who we will ever be," he adds.
He says the first attack was on innocent children, the second an attack on the rule of law.
Image source, PA MediaTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar is speaking in Dublin Castle - addressing the violence in the city yesterday.
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Irish Minister for Justice Helen McEntee says there could be prison sentences of up to 12 years for attacking gardaí during rioting in Dublin.
Speaking to RTÉ, she says "perhaps 200 people who saw a particularly devastating act took advantage of that and created and wreaked havoc across our city".
McEntee adds that while Thursday's scenes were shocking, gardaí "contained this for the most part to a very small area".
"This was our main thoroughfare and I acknowledge that and I think the scenes are incomprehensible," she says.
McEntee says there were a "huge number of gardaí who were assaulted, who were spat at, who were the victims of vitriol and hate themselves", adding: "I cannot commend them enough."
Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Micheál Martin has just spoken to the press in Dublin.
He condemns the rioting and pays tribute to the work of the police, saying that the scenes in the Irish capital are not "who we are as a people".
"Ireland has built a modern and inclusive society," he says.
"It is something precious that we should all work to hold and we understand the need to respect other, the need to respect difference, and the need to respect the dignity of every human being.
"This is something we should hold precious and we should collectively as a society come together to recommit to those fundamental values."