FOUR MEN WERE arrested in Dublin City Centre this evening following a pro-choice demonstration outside the GPO.
The men, all of whom are in their mid to late 20s, were taken to Store Street garda station after a protest that was organised by Real-Productive Health and the Workers Solidarity Movement.
Three of the men remain in garda custody while a fourth has been released with gardaí saying charges will be brought in his case at a later date.
All four were arrested on public order offences at about 6.40pm.
In a statement released this evening following the arrests, the Worker’s Solidarity Movement say that one of the men was pepper-sprayed during the incident.
The group says that the arrests occurred when a protesters climbed scaffolding on the GPO in an attempt to drape a banner from the building.
Gardaí say they have no information about whether pepper spray was used.
Newspaper and website Rabble reports that the banner that they attempted to raise said, ‘Abortion charges are bollocks’.
Organisers of the protest say it was arranged to support a Belfast a woman who has been charged with assisting her daughter to obtain an abortion.
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