Dublin rioters who shouted Nazi slogans and used Nazi gestures during Saturday's disturbances were in part inspired by President Mary McAleese, it has been claimed.
President McAleese was the subject of controversy last year after she made comments that appeared to compare Protestants who taught their children to hate Catholics, to Nazis.
William Frazer of the Protestant victims' group Fair
Speaking on Morning Ireland, Mrs McAleese said of the Nazis: "They gave to their children an irrational hatred of Jews, in the same way that people in Northern Ireland transmitted to their children, an irrational outrageous hatred, for example, of Catholics, in the same way that people give to their children, an irrational outrageous hatred of those who have different colour."
Mrs McAleese apologised on RTÉ the following day.
One of the organisers of Saturday's abandoned Love Ulster parade, William Frazer of the Protestant victims' group Fair, said the practice of abusing Protestants with Nazi salutes did not start "all of a sudden".
"That started after comments made by Mary McAleese," he said. "The majority of people in Northern Ireland want nothing more to do with her."
