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More than 200 messages varied from polite advice to borderline racist abuse

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‘There have been serious protest/riot threats made,’ officials wrote about ill-fated event

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Irish Times Poll: One in eight voters think controversial event should have gone ahead

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Mary Lou McDonald says decision only to include FF and FG leaders is a ‘bit of a farce’

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Why was the commemoration so contentious and why was it really cancelled?

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De Valera’s grandson said an academic conference would be more appropriate

Retired garda who proposed RIC event shocked by 'vitriolic' backlash

Plans to commemorate police forces at Dublin Castle have sparked abuse on social media

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Unionist politicians deplore decision by Minister for Justice to call off planned RIC commemoration

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Historian accuses Government of using advisory group ‘like a mud guard’

Minister said he would not ‘split hairs’ with Diarmaid Ferriter over expert advice

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Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan hoped event would rehabilitate forces’ reputation

RIC controversy: Fine Gael councillors hit out at decision to hold commemoration

Messages to private party Whatsapp group say the Government performed ‘own goal’

Government forced to confront complicated history of two police forces

RIC and DMP were tasked with opposing IRA in War of Independence

Varadkar defends holding RIC commemoration amid boycotts of event

Minister criticises those ‘seeking headlines’ as mayors say they will not attend ceremony

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It is only right that in commemorating the past in all its complexity we should not forget the policemen who served the community to the best of their ability

Black and Tans tainted reputation of RIC and DMP police forces

No Irish Government has saw fit to honour member of either service until now

RIC and DMP policemen to be commemorated for first time by State

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Minister attends service for killed RIC and DMP men

Charlie Flanagan says he wants to remember police ‘murdered in the line of duty’

Dublin Metropolitan Police constable killed by IRA to be remembered

Michael Downing was ‘simply in the wrong place at the wrong time’ when shot in the Liberties

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First meeting of Dáil Éireann ‘would have done credit to the British House of Commons’

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When the RIC was no longer seen as a benign force

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