Calls for Garda reforms, a Garda Ombudsman and the dropping of charges against all protesters at Monday's Reclaim the Streets march were made at yesterday's protest outside Pearse Street Garda station.
More than 1,500 people attended the protest, which began at Pearse Street at 6 p.m. and finished two hours later at Dublin City Council's Wood Quay offices. The event passed off peacefully and the mood was good-natured, although some gardaí were taunted along the route.
The demonstrators had a brief sit-down protest at the scene of last Monday's clashes outside City Hall on Dame Street, where gardaí had beaten demonstrators with batons.
Forty uniformed gardaí from several stations and several plainclothes gardaí policed last evening's demonstration. Several gardaí on motorbikes and a Garda van took up the rear as traffic reverted to normal.
Some of the demonstrators were dressed as "peace police", with one young woman wearing a plastic British-style police helmet and carrying an over-sized sponge mallet. She re-enacted scenes from Monday's demonstration, theatrically beating a demonstrator.
Banners were carried bearing slogans such as: "Beat me - I'm political", "Hugs, not thugs", and "Sak Da Gardaí".
Speakers said the protest was the start of a new mass movement. Mr Joe Carolan, a Globalise Resistance spokesman, said this movement was "for civil rights, equality and justice for all".
Mr Kieran Allen of the Socialist Workers' Party said the mass movement was "beginning to threaten those who held a corrupt grip on Irish society and they want to break the movement".
The Socialist Party TD, Mr Joe Higgins, said Monday's events were part of a pattern of police violence in every recent EU demonstration.
"If this happens in full view of the public and the television cameras, what happens night after night and weekend after weekend in the privacy of Garda cells and in barracks up and down the country?"
To great cheers, he said "massive demonstrations" would be organised when Ireland next hosted the EU presidency.
Ms Ivana Bacik, Reid Professor of Law at Trinity College, said the events on Monday were "nothing less than police brutality".
Cllr Ciarán Cuffe, a Green Party spokesman, said Monday's events were "an attack on civil liberties, it was an attack on democracy, it was an attack on the people of Dublin".
Sinn Féin election candidate Mr Dáithí Doolan said people complained that youngsters were not interested in politics, yet when took to the streets, they were attacked by gardaí.
Mr Doolan said the Garda Commissioner, Mr Pat Byrne, should resign if he could not control his force.
Chief Supt William Donoghue from Pearse Street Garda Station said his members had been briefed in advance of last night's event about their functions in relation to policing protest marches.
"We have a good track record of policing marches and policing demonstrations. The odd one goes wrong from time to time," he said.
He declined to comment on last Monday's event as it was the subject of an internal Garda inquiry.
Three general election candidates joined a dozen demonstrators outside Waterford Garda Station in Ballybricken, in protest against what they described as the "unnecessary" force applied by the gardaí during a demonstration held by the Reclaim the Streets movement in Dublin this week.