International media: Despite the shockwaves generated at a national level by events on Dublin's streets last weekend, the disturbances generated few ripples in the international media.
Compared to the rioting in the Muslim world over the Muhammad cartoons, the number of casualties - 14 people injured - was relatively low and clearly insufficient to persuade the world's press that this was a major news story.
Coverage in yesterday's Guardian, published in London, was confined to a three-column photograph and caption.
There was little interest also on the part of the French media, but reports of varying length were carried in the German press.
A news story of about 500 words in the Suddeutsche Zeitung, published in Munich, was accompanied by a photograph of a burning motorcycle and the headline "Looting and riots in Dublin". The Berlin-based Die Welt carried a dispatch of similar length and there were brief reports in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau.
The Sunday Territorian, published in Australia's Northern Territory, carried a single paragraph as follows: "Several hundred Irish Republican Army supporters opposed to a Protestant march in Dublin attacked police for several hours on Saturday, bringing damage and danger to Ireland's normally peaceful capital."
Rioters were also depicted as "IRA supporters" in the Chicago Tribune. "In scenes rare for the Republic of Ireland, protesters hurled bottles, bricks, concrete blocks and fireworks for more than an hour at officers trying to clear the crowd from Dublin's famed O'Connell Street," the paper said.
An Associated Press dispatch carried by the Monterey County Herald in California reported the events in similar terms: "The protesters, mostly young men covering their faces with scarves, chanted pro-IRA slogans as they waged running battles with riot police and other officers on horseback for more than an hour, forcing shops on Ireland's most famous street to close."
Meanwhile, a report by Brian Lavery of the New York Times was carried on the website of the International Herald Tribune under the headline "Dublin riots damage fragile peace efforts".
Lavery wrote that the disturbances had "significantly damaged British plans to restore Northern Ireland's power-sharing local government".
In the far-flung Canadian province of Alberta, the Calgary Herald carried an Associated Press photograph with a 400-word account of the protest from the Bloomberg news service, which took the long view, in historical terms, reporting that Ireland had seen "some of the worst street violence since the country acceded from British rule 84 years ago".