Fallout shelters,bunkers & C in Ireland

Clare gunner

Folks,
Are there any such active or decomissioned around our fair island??
I know there is the one under Custume barracks in Athlone.But that was supposedly decommd.If so,how could one get to view any of these,or any websites listing them??? Was in the CD shelter under the old town hall in Limerick once,that is now gone as well.
Somone said there was/is a bunker complex overlooking the runway at Shannon,near where the Lufthansa hanger is.Anyone ever hear of this?
Thnks CG

babybundy

i dont think this is for general conversation

Clare gunner

I said Decommd not currently active.

KeRbDoG

babybundy wrote:

i dont think this is for general conversation

Why not?

BigDuffman

hmmmm well there are concrete shelter/pillboxs around gormo.

Hagar

babybundy wrote:

i dont think this is for general conversation

Prudent comment.

Clare Gunner wrote:

Are there any such active or decomissioned around our fair island??

Clare Gunner wrote:

I said Decommd not currently active.

Oh no you didn't...

Discussion of decomissioned bunkers which are publicly known is fine but discussion of current strategic bunkers is not.

Please continue with that in mind.

Manic Moran

What's the point in having a fallout shelter if nobody knows where it is or how to get to it?

"Citizens of Ireland. World War III has kicked off, and the UK has been nuked. Winds are bringing the fallout to our fair island. For the next 48 hours, please proceed to your designated fallout shelters. Oh, we neglected to tell you where they are, didn't we?"

NTM

Hagar

So it's safe to assume then that Uncle Sam has a place set aside for each and every one of his 260,000,000 citizens and they all know where they are... or maybe they're just for the Government and ranking officials.

I know it's one or the other, I can just never remember which.

the_syco

There's one in Merrion Square. Its just a big lump, now, but there's a sign somewhere nearby saying it was a bunker.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=53.339451,-6.248801&spn=0.00228,0.005021&t=k&om=1

Manic Moran

Hagar wrote:

So it's safe to assume then that Uncle Sam has a place set aside for each and every one of his 260,000,000 citizens and they all know where they are... or maybe they're just for the Government and ranking officials.

I know where mine are... both near work and near home.

That said, I'm not to confident about the one at the airport.

NTM

Clare gunner

Hagar wrote:

So it's safe to assume then that Uncle Sam has a place set aside for each and every one of his 260,000,000 citizens and they all know where they are... or maybe they're just for the Government and ranking officials.

I know it's one or the other, I can just never remember which.

Er...we did... have them. Until the early 90s and then the entire Civil defence programme was scrapped,and FEMA took it over.That was until 9/11 and recently when survivalism or better known in PC speak as prepardnesses,it is now the fashion to build your own prepardness room aka bunker.

Well, I get from the tone of this,yes we do have somthing to hide for all "the chosen"aka every politico and their family girl/boy friends etc:rolleyes: But it is a great state secret.Dont worry,I am not intrested in the current stuff,if it exists,as if and when anything ever happens it will be blindingly obvious where they are.:eek: :rolleyes: [Have fun defending them BTW...]

I am more intrested in decomissioned bunkers,and pill boxes etc.So no worries about Irelands nuke bunkers....:)

civdef

There's no real secret about some of the current ones at least, a good few county Civil Defence HQ's were built as county control centres, with ventilation systems, radio base sets, switchboards etc, though this was more with fallout in mind than as blast shelters. The plan was these would act as coordination centres from reports coming in from post and district wardens around the county as they reported radiation levels, and to organise the official response.

One thing they forgot in at least one of them was to include toilets!

There's nothing like on the same level as what was in place in the UK though:
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/

Dub13

Which TD was it who said on national radio (i think) that it in the event of a fallout we should ring or go to our local Garda station.

Vorsprung

Dub13 wrote:

Which TD was it who said on national radio (i think) that it in the event of a fallout we should ring or go to our local Garda station.

Dick Roche?

Clare gunner

civdef wrote:

There's no real secret about some of the current ones at least, a good few county Civil Defence HQ's were built as county control centres, with ventilation systems, radio base sets, switchboards etc, though this was more with fallout in mind than as blast shelters. The plan was these would act as coordination centres from reports coming in from post and district wardens around the county as they reported radiation levels, and to organise the official response.

One thing they forgot in at least one of them was to include toilets!

There's nothing like on the same level as what was in place in the UK though:
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/

Thanks Civdef.Is there anyway a civvie and taxpayer can get a tour of any of these?paticullary intrested in the Athlone/Custume bunker,as I belive that is now decomissioned?

civdef

IIRC the Athlone one has been dismantled, it's definitely no longer "ready for use".

I'd say you probably could get access to most of them, definitely the CD ones whould only be a matter of a phonecall or a letter - there's no sensitivite information involved. A request to the O/C of Custume Barracks would let you know the story with Athlone.