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In pictures: the Dublin anti-Blair protests

Three are arrested as anti-war and republican demonstrators protest at Tony Blair’s book signing.

TONY BLAIR was met with over a hundred protestors as he arrived at Eason’s on O’Connell St, Dublin for his first book signing earlier today.

In an organised protest, protesters chanted anti-war slogans at the former British prime minister, while one tried to perform a citizen’s arrest shortly after getting Blair’s autograph on his book, ‘A Journey’.

In pictures: the Dublin anti-Blair protests
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    Gardai clash with protesters as former Prime Minister Tony Blair, attends his first book signing at Eason's on O'Connell St, Dublin.
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    Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, right, attends his first book signing, with Conor Whelen, Managing Director of Eason's bookstore on O'Connell St, Dublin.
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    Garda and crowds clash as protesters demonstrate against Tony Blair book signing his memoirs 'A Journey' inside Eason's on O'Connell St, Dublin.
  • Tony Blair autobiography

    Gardai clash with protesters as former Prime Minister Tony Blair, attends his first book signing, at Eason's on O'Connell St, Dublin.
  • Tony Blair autobiography

    Gardai clash with protesters as former Prime Minister Tony Blair, attends his first book signing,at Eason's book store, in Dublin, Dublin.
  • Tony Blair autobiography

    Gardai clash with protesters as former Prime Minister Tony Blair, attends his first book signing, at Eason's on O'Connell St, Dublin.
  • Tony Blair autobiography

    Gardai clash with protesters as former Prime Minister Tony Blair, attends his first book signing, at Eason's on O'Connell St, Dublin.
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    Tony Blair emerges from Eason's bookstore on O'Connell Street in Dublin, Ireland to the sound of chanting protesters as they demonstrate against his book signing in Dublin.
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    Protestors outside the shop front of Eason's bookstore as former Prime Minister Tony Blair attends his first book signing in Dublin.
  • Tony Blair autobiography

    Gardai line the shop front of Eason's bookstore as former Prime Minister Tony Blair attends his first book signing in Dublin.
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    Kate O'Sullivan from Cork who attempted to make a citizens arrest on former Prime Minister Tony Blair as he signed copies of his autobiography in Dublin this morning.

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