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Friends of the Halawa family gather at the Egyptian Embassy in Dublin demanding the release of four Irish siblings Niall Carson/PA Wire

Gardaí on scene at Egyptian Embassy protest

Protesters demanding the release of the four Irish citizens held in Cairo have gathered outside the embassy in Ballsbridge.

GARDAÍ HAVE BEEN called to an attempted sit-in at the Egyptian Embassy in Dublin.

About 20 protesters, believed to be members of the Egyptian community in Dublin, are outside the Clyde Road site, demanding the release of four Irish citizens detained in Cairo.

The Department of Foreign Affairs is believed to be making attempts to meet with the Halawa siblings, who were detained after Egyptian security forces stormed a mosque on Saturday.

An embassy spokesperson said that while there were protesters outside, the embassy had not been evacuated, as had been suggested earlier.

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    May 1st 2013, 1:55 PM

    This is the kinda s€umbag who needs to be removed from society And locked away for a very very long time,
    The world doesn’t need creeps like him.,

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    May 2nd 2013, 1:37 AM

    Death penalty would be appropriate here

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    May 1st 2013, 3:09 PM

    I met Dave Greene in a hostel in Perth in 2011
    He was a nice guy, no one deserves what happened to him
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    May 1st 2013, 1:22 PM

    What can be said about this article.

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    May 1st 2013, 2:02 PM

    ?

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    May 1st 2013, 5:02 PM

    Is that a rhetorical question?

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    May 1st 2013, 7:41 PM

    We holt should be hanged.

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    May 1st 2013, 7:41 PM

    Wenholt (autocorrect)

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    May 1st 2013, 10:19 PM

    Isn’t it so sad, and such a waste.

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    May 1st 2013, 2:37 PM

    Luke sorry

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    May 1st 2013, 2:37 PM

    Pretty sure that’s like pictured??

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    May 1st 2013, 11:50 PM

    Why all the red thumbs I’m merely correcting the article as its wentholt pictured and not the victim as stated??ffs

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    May 2nd 2013, 12:38 AM

    Keith not sure where you got that idea that the picture is of Wentholt? but I can confirm that the picture used in the article is of the victim Dave Greene

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