Dramatic CCTV footage shows huge St Patrick's Day brawl that forced Manchester Irish Centre to close

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The Irish World Heritage Centre has vowed to make changes to improve safety after a ‘violent brawl’ broke out following Manchester's St Patrick's Day parade last month.

It led to an NHS volunteer getting her teeth ‘knocked out’. Following a full review, the Manchester City Council licensing panel decided that this was an ‘isolated incident’ and were satisfied that effective steps had been taken to prevent future problems of this nature.

Speaking after the hearing on April 8, trustee for the centre Martin Connolly said: “This means we can reopen safely. We have reviewed our procedures and now we can go back to being a family orientated centre that we were before and we will be on guard for any trouble in the future. “This was an isolated incident as the police and the committee said.

This has not happened in a very long time, this was isolated. “How often does that happen on a night out? It doesn’t. Read more: 'Empty promises and feeling let down': Attitudes in Leigh are split three years after they turned Tory for the first time “That happened in an instant over nothing.