An Irish Republican march has been forced to change date and route amid police fears over public safety.

Police Scotland had objected to the parade taking place this weekend due to concerns over public disorder and the level of resources that would be needed to safely police the event.

The procession was originally planned for Saturday afternoon in the south side of Glasgow.

Organiser Independent Republican Bands Scotland (IRBS), said the march would begin at 1.30pm in Castlemilk and continue for an hour and 45 minutes to Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire.

Police outlined their objections to the anti-internment parade going ahead due to "a high risk to public safety, a high risk of public disorder and a high risk of disruption to the life of the community".

The city council's public processions committee met on Tuesday morning and ruled the date and route of the march must be amended.

A spokesman for the council said: "The committee recognises the organiser's right to hold a public procession. In the interests of public safety, it has amended the date and route."

The procession will now take place on Saturday, September 3, and assemble in Drakemire Drive at 10.45am to start at 11am.

The amended route will begin at Drakemire Drive on to Lainshaw Drive, Carmunock Road, Croftfoot Road and proceed into Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire.

Police Scotland said the march would only be able to be contained through "substantial deployment" of police resources including riot officers.

It was also highlighted that four other marches as well as two premier league football matches are taking place in Glasgow on the same day, which would mean officers from other areas of the country would need to be brought in to assist.

In 2014, the IRBS held a parade in the same area which resulted in a number of arrests and the event being dispersed due to "rioting and mobbing".

Around 120 officers along with the dog unit and mounted branch had to be deployed to deal with the trouble, police said.

A report to the council's public processions committee said: "Police Scotland representatives outlined their observations on the proposed procession and indicated their objection to the procession taking place as submitted.

"Their concerns were that should this parade take place there would be a high risk to public safety, a high risk of public disorder and a high risk of disruption to the life of the community.

"These risks could only be contained through a substantial deployment of Police Scotland resources, including specialist public order trained officers.

"Due to other competing events that day, including four other processions (one of which numbers 3000 participants) and two premiership football matches in Glasgow, the resources required would have to be drawn from other local authority areas, inclusive of Dundee, Edinburgh and other areas in Scotland, thus depriving those communities of resources."

It added: "The demand for this level of resourcing is formed from the observations and the experience of previous events involving Independent Republican Bands Scotland in September 2014 following the same route as proposed, whereby serious public disorder occurred resulting in arrests for mobbing and rioting and other public order offences, and involved the operational use of over 120 police officers including specialist officers from the mounted branch, dog branch, public order and air support unit.

"The procession culminated in Police Scotland's exercise of powers under Section 12 of The Public Order Act 1986 causing the procession to be halted and dispersed."