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Bomb Scare on O'Connell st

  • 27-10-2006 11:31am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 995 ✭✭✭


    What's happening? seen it a couple of minutes ago on online.ie


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 94 ✭✭bongo85


    Yeah, heard this aswell.. Apparently there's something outside the police station???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 705 ✭✭✭CTU_Agent


    news reports are saying the scare centres around an airport- aircoach on O'connol street and Army bomb disposal are at the scene.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,632 ✭✭✭✭okidoki987


    Great site.
    http://www.dublincity.ie/living_in_the_city/getting_around/traffic_cameras/

    Pictures updated about every 5 mins.
    If the picture of O'Connell street doesn't show any buildings the next time
    it's updated, guess it's not a scare any more ;)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,822 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    okidoki987 wrote:
    Great site.
    http://www.dublincity.ie/living_in_the_city/getting_around/traffic_cameras/

    Pictures updated about every 5 mins.
    If the picture of O'Connell street doesn't show any buildings the next time
    it's updated, guess it's not a scare any more ;)

    Hasn't updated in 20 minutes... :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭Damomanye


    From ireland.com

    suspicious package was found on a bus.

    The package was noticed by the driver of an airport shuttle bus and reported to the Garda Station on Upper O'Connell Street.

    A Garda spokeswoman said army bomb disposal experts had been called to examine the package.

    Witnesses said there was significant army presence in the area


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,400 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    According to Newstalk, traffic is returning to normal going Southside on O'Connell street and still some delays travelling Northside.

    Latest camera image:

    EDIT: Snap JoeSoap :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭whitetrash


    Looking out the window, everything seems pretty much back to normal. Guards are still blocking some traffic though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Jaysus look at all the wasters have they no jobs to go to !!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    It's reported on the Irish Times now. Anecdotal evidence of army all over the place there too.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,400 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    gandalf wrote:
    Jaysus look at all the wasters have they no jobs to go to !!!

    Anytime I take a weekday off and wander around the shops I'm always amazed at the number of people walking around town.

    I always think 'Lucky so and so's don't need to work for a living' then I think 'They're probably looking at me thinking the same thing!' :D

    Seriously, they can't all be on a day off can they? What do they do for a living?

    Oh yeah, if WhiteTrash doesn't post back then we can probably take it that things didn't quite go back to normal :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭ciaran76


    Why do people stand and watch to see if there is a bomb ? :eek:
    I would be out of there as quick as I can !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 995 ✭✭✭cousin_borat


    I'd just like to punish those muppets who leave suitcases etc lying around.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,822 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    ciaran76 wrote:
    Why do people stand and watch to see if there is a bomb ? :eek:
    I would be out of there as quick as I can !

    I have always wondered this too. I remember in the 90s when there were quite a few bomb warnings around town, it was standard for idiots to hang around gawping. All those glass buildings nearby! :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,562 ✭✭✭connundrum


    ciaran76 wrote:
    Why do people stand and watch to see if there is a bomb ? :eek:
    I would be out of there as quick as I can !

    LMAO!

    'Lookit, dis bleedin bag is tickin! Whatcha reckon irris? Jaysus, I reckon I'll know if I shake de bleedin ting! Come on lads, lets all shake de bleedin ting!'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭tracert




  • Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nice early lunch for some people*

    *I do actually hope that it is not a real threat, of course.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Latest


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,951 ✭✭✭L5




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,632 ✭✭✭✭okidoki987


    Just people being nosey :rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    Lol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭Kingsize


    ciaran76 wrote:
    Why do people stand and watch to see if there is a bomb ? :eek:
    I would be out of there as quick as I can !

    Knobjockeys -Cos the phrase Bomb Scare makes it seem okay ? its not a bomb its a bomb scare so i'll stand around & watch.
    Do people forget about the Dublin /Monaghan/Omagh Bombings not to mention countless others where people got no warning.
    Nobody deserves to be bombed but if you get yer legs blown off rubbernecking at a police barrier when you couldve got the hell outta there dont come running to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,794 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    gandalf wrote:
    Jaysus look at all the wasters have they no jobs to go to !!!


    what are you doing on boards?? get back to work:p :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    what are you doing on boards?? get back to work:p :p

    The url accidently fell onto my work related browser :p (honest!)


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    This thread could make for great photoshop prospects.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭el rabitos


    tourists :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,172 ✭✭✭Don1


    Just wait til the sensible ppl have left the area, call out the bomb squad etc. and "blast those foo's" who stayed behind. It's a modern spin on Darwinian theory.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    connundrum wrote:
    LMAO!

    'Lookit, dis bleedin bag is tickin! Whatcha reckon irris? Jaysus, I reckon I'll know if I shake de bleedin ting! Come on lads, lets all shake de bleedin ting!'

    Who remembers the "interesting bomb" in the game MDK?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭smcelhinney


    Incidentally ..

    Amiens St is looking very... ummm... "blue"....

    Or is that those O2 dudes putting their advertising everywhere again..

    http://www.dublincity.ie/living_in_the_city/getting_around/traffic_cameras/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,794 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    gandalf wrote:
    The url accidently fell onto my work related browser :p (honest!)

    well that explains it:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 605 ✭✭✭exiztone


    So was there a bomb or what?


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,436 Mod ✭✭✭✭Suaimhneach


    Obviously not, they woulda exploded it there and then, most likely...

    My freind was caught up in it.

    DREGIN WE LOVE YOU!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,407 ✭✭✭✭justsomebloke


    anybody else love the fact that someone in holland was the first person to spot this and post about it.

    isn't the internet great,


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 324 ✭✭JaysusMacfeck


    Calls are being made to bring those responsible for today's bomb hoax in the capital to justice.

    Dublin's O'Connell Street came to a standstill earlier after a suspect device was discovered on board an airport bus.

    It contained no explosives and was dealt with by the army bomb disposal unit.

    It has now been brought to garda headquarters for further examination.

    Hoaxers can face up to five years in jail and fines of over 60 thousand euro.
    .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    Calls are being made to bring those responsible for today's bomb hoax in the capital to justice.


    how do they know it was a hoax so soon?

    was it a fake bomb in a bag?



    just last night I was reading how the they think the dissidents are going to try to bomb somewhere, but it woudnt be dublin


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,063 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Kingsize wrote:
    but if you get yer legs blown off rubbernecking at a police barrier when you couldve got the hell outta there dont come running to me.

    I don't think they would be running to you so!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭tom-thebox


    Scarey stuff


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭Leprachaun


    i was one of those idiots at the fence :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,391 ✭✭✭arbeitsscheuer


    Dammit, I knew I'd left my bag somewhere on that bus this morning...

    ...

    Uh oh.


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