So, there I am, sitting in a cab on the quays when trouble breaks out between a bunch of junkies on the pavement across the road.
Nothing unusual there, of course.
After all, anyone who spends any time in Dublin's city centre will see these feral, worthless scumbags getting up to mischief all the time -- but this bit of aggro was different.
Because one of the women -- if you can even call these people that -- who was kicking a bloke on the ground was also holding her baby in her arms as she was delivering the beating.
It was quite remarkable, really, to see in modern Ireland, in the full light of day and in front of shocked and appalled passers by, a mother holding her kid while being part of a group belting the crap out of someone.
Let's get a few things straight -- I hate junkies more than anything else.
Source: Ian O'Doherty, The Irish Independent, 18/02/2011