... man who refused to protect him. The events of that day led even former critics of the PD's like John Hume to offer a heroes' welcome and begin rioting in Guildhall Square. Father P.J Egan summarized well, the feeling of the Catholic youth towards the Police in that there was a complete lack of confidence in their ability to enforce law and order impartially ... when I went to school, fellas who were the same age would look at you differently because you knocked about with Protestants...you would see graffiti like 'join your local unit' and 'IRA'. It was just something you'd se...

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... Widgery was that a public outrage followed from the Irish people. Such was the scale of the outcry that followed that the irate crowd burned down the British embassy in Merrion Square, Dublin. Another consequence was that the Anglo-Irish relations hit one of their lowest ebbs, with the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Patrick Hillery, going especially to the United Nations ... which caused major discrimmination issues of the basis of cultural background. When the army had first arrived they had been welcomed by Nationalists and Catholics as their protectors from a paramilitary unit a...

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