27 Nov 2023

Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 27 November 2023
Flames rise from a car and a bus, set alight at the junction of Bachelors Walk and the O'Connell Bridge, in Dublin on November 23, 2023, as people took to the streets in protest following the stabbings earlier in the day. Protesters in Dublin on Thursday torched a car and fought police, an AFP journalist reported, after three children were injured in a suspected school stabbing that social media rumours attributed to a foreign national. (Photo by Peter MURPHY / AFP)

Flames rise from a car and a bus, set alight at the junction of Bachelors Walk and the O'Connell Bridge, in Dublin, as people took to the streets in protest following the stabbings earlier in the day. Photo: PETER MURPHY / AFP

Seamus looks at a shock election result in the Netherlands, with the right-wing PVV Freedom Party scoring about 25 percent of the vote.

Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders would still need to build a coalition with at least two other moderate parties to govern. And in Dublin, Ireland, a heavy police presence remains after a rare outbreak of riots linked to far-right, anti-immigrant groups.

Authorities say the violence, which followed a knife attack targeting children, saw the largest ever deployment of riot police in the history of the Republic of Ireland.