What's going on ~1pm City Centre

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There's a couple of rescue helicopters around the place.

Anyone got any info?

Noopti

There are also police divers, fire brigade etc at Eden quay.

Looks like they are looking for something, or someone. Maybe related to this?

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhsnsngbsnmh/

Edit: Looking out my window....at a Helicopter now. It is a rescue one.

Maybe it is just an excersise?

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Noopti wrote: »

Edit: Looking out my window....at a Helicopter now. It is a rescue one.

Maybe it is just an excersise?

My brother reckons someone fell in the Liffey :eek:

Degsy

Its still hovering away over the quays..quite low actually.

Snapper1

Traffic is mental around Amien Street, backed up all the way to Fairview, i couldn't see the source of the problem though, helicopter is still up...

BendiBus

The Coast Guard is hovering over the IFSC. Maybe they're rescuing the banks?

John Mason

the rescue helicopter is hovering around merrion square - ambulance has just gone flying past now

sickle

someone jumped off O'Connell bridge
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/search-underway-for-man-seen-jumping-from-bridge-1647963.html

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sickle wrote: »

someone jumped off O'Connell bridge
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/search-underway-for-man-seen-jumping-from-bridge-1647963.html

Jaysis

Noopti

Not looking good so.

That helicopter has been up and down the river at least a dozen times since I came back to office after lunch.

Sleipnir

Poor fvuker.

6th

Its loud isn't it.

Danbo!

Sounds like it just left. The fact it was there for more than an hour probably means bad news

Edit: Nope, its back

John Mason

it has to be something more then one person jumping


the noise is going on for too long and 3 ambulances have just gone flying past here

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It's back again now.

I'm going to take a walk down in the next while to have a look

stevenmu

They're making another run up the river now, there's been a few boats up and down as well.

Gavin "shels"

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0220/dublin.html

Danbo!

Breaking news say someone was seen jumping from oconnell bridge.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhsnsnqlgbgb/

But RTÉ now say that a body was spotted in the river just after midday.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0220/dublin.html

Rte's story is more up to date.

CiaranC

Why the big furore? People are always jumping in the Liffey. Maybe it was the taoiseach.

Noopti

The helicopter seems to be concentrating closer to the port now, probably the tide is going out so any person/body has likely moved out that way by now.

rc28

Helicopter has been really loud over past 2 hours, occasionally hovering right obver the library here in Trinity.

Degsy

rc28 wrote: »

Helicopter has been really loud over past 2 hours, occasionally hovering right obver the library here in Trinity.

What are you doing on boards in the library?

rc28

Degsy wrote: »

What are you doing on boards in the library?

Lol, I actually came on to find out why my concentration was being ruined by a loud drone sound since lunch.

stovelid

rc28 wrote: »

Lol, I actually came on to find out why my concentration was being ruined by a loud drone sound since lunch.

That's just conversation from The Buttery.

AnonoBoy

Degsy wrote: »

What are you doing on boards in the library?

Eh.... are you not in a library too Degsy?

Degsy

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Eh.... are you not in a library too Degsy?

Er yes..but i was er,on my break..yes,thats right.I was on my break!

6th

<kisses> Look, we're all so close to the liffey ... lets do lunch sometime! </kisses>

Degsy

6th wrote: »

<kisses> Look, we're all so close to the liffey ... lets do lunch sometime! </kisses>

Lets all throw ourselves into the river.
Throw ourselves willingly to escape all this hideousness.

Carpaydiem

Work just beside Hibernian way myself, bloody choppers were wrecking my head after lunch.

Why da hell do they need a chopper to fly up the Liffey?? A boat would be doing the rescue anyway.....

troubled1

Could be a banker.

Varkov

One of the firemen told me they thought they found the body. Some guy in a suit, so probably a banker or government man.

Jesus Wept

Sleipnir wrote: »

Poor fvuker.

Stupid fúcker.

stovelid

The-Rigger wrote: »

Stupid fúcker.

Don't lets go down this road. It's not AH and the guy's dead.

troubled1

Have they found him?

Varkov

Yeah, hes dead

Jesus Wept

stovelid wrote: »

Don't lets go down this road. It's not AH and the guy's dead.

I'm entirely aware that it's not AH, whether someone is alive or dead does not effect the quality of their character.

I think he is a stupid fúcker for choosing O'Connell Bridge of all places to jump off because so many resources are being utilising now because of this, and grinding the city to a halt.

Whatever outcome he wanted, he didn't need to choose such a resource draining, selfish and attention seeking way of achieving it - and for this he is a stupid fúcker, imo.

stovelid

The-Rigger wrote: »

I think he is a stupid fúcker for choosing O'Connell Bridge of all places to jump off because so many resources are being utilising now because of this, and grinding the city to a halt.
Whatever outcome he wanted, he didn't need to choose such a resource draining, selfish and attention seeking way of achieving it - and for this he is a stupid fúcker, imo.

Perhaps the Samaritans should rustle up an advisory on the topic:

Depressed enough to kill yourself? - Please consider city centre traffic management issues before doing so.

Collie D

The-Rigger wrote: »

I'm entirely aware that it's not AH, whether someone is alive or dead does not effect the quality of their character.

I think he is a stupid fúcker for choosing O'Connell Bridge of all places to jump off because so many resources are being utilising now because of this, and grinding the city to a halt.

Whatever outcome he wanted, he didn't need to choose such a resource draining, selfish and attention seeking way of achieving it - and for this he is a stupid fúcker, imo.

I take it you have never considered working for the Samaritans?

Poor bloke. I'm sure there's lots of people who are feeling like he was right now so don't be cúnts about it because it could be one of your friends or family next time.

The fact he jumped into the liffey at around lunch time just shows you how bad his state of mind was.

Jesus Wept

Collie D wrote: »

I take it you have never considered working for the Samaritans?

Why?

Varkov

Rojomcdojo wrote: »

Poor bloke. I'm sure there's lots of people who are feeling like he was right now so don't be cúnts about it because it could be one of your friends or family next time.

The fact he jumped into the liffey at around lunch time just shows you how bad his state of mind was.

Yeah, I mean no one has to do any work on a Friday after Lunch.

troubled1

Wow you guys are harsh!

Collie D

The-Rigger wrote: »

Why?

You don't seem very sympathetic. As Rojomcdojo said the guy more than likely has family or friends. God knows what frame of mind he was in.

Varkov

Im not, its very very unfortunate. Just cracking a joke. All apologies.

Jesus Wept

Collie D wrote: »

You don't seem very sympathetic. As Rojomcdojo said the guy more than likely has family or friends. God knows what frame of mind he was in.

I am sympathetic that he felt the need to harm himself and I feel sympathy for his loved ones.

It frustrates me that he felt the need to chosen such an attention seeking, resource draining method, specifically going to the busiest bridge in the city and country and causing the city center to grind to a halt.

For example: when people jump off a bridge in front of an oncoming train?
Why bring so much stress and trauma on the train driver, and to a less extend the passengers. Why bring them into the equation?

Collie D

The-Rigger wrote: »

I am sympathetic that he felt the need to harm himself and I feel sympathy for his loved ones.

It frustrates me that he felt the need to chosen such an attention seeking, resource draining method, specifically going to the busiest bridge in the city and country and causing the city center to grind to a halt.

For example: when people jump off a bridge in front of an oncoming train?
Why bring so much stress and trauma on the train driver, and to a less extend the passengers. Why bring them into the equation?

Fair enough but I doubt the last thing he was thinking of was how long it would take somebody to drive home.

Jesus Wept

Collie D wrote: »

Fair enough but I doubt the last thing he was thinking of was how long it would take somebody to drive home.

Perhaps he did though? I mean - he did make a journey to O'Connell Bridge in order to jump off it.

I very much doubt that he was simply walking across O'Connell Bridge and then thought - 'ah fúck this' - and jumped in within the moment.

I think he most likely set out to cause the commotion whilst killing himself/making a cry for help.

Collie D

The-Rigger wrote: »

I think he most likely set out to cause the commotion whilst killing himself/making a cry for help.

Ah, come on. I can see this descending into a stupid argument so I'll leave it at that. Been a rough day

Jesus Wept

Do you seriously believe he was unaware that he had chosen the busiest intersection in the city/country as the place to travel to in order to put himself in harms way?

Srsly?
Was he a tourist or something?!

Econoline Van

Degsy wrote: »

Lets all throw ourselves into the river.
Throw ourselves willingly to escape all this hideousness.

Throw yourself into the river darling, you haven't got a chance.

January

The-Rigger wrote: »

Perhaps he did though? I mean - he did make a journey to O'Connell Bridge in order to jump off it.

I very much doubt that he was simply walking across O'Connell Bridge and then thought - 'ah fúck this' - and jumped in within the moment.

I think he most likely set out to cause the commotion whilst killing himself/making a cry for help.

You've obviously never been severely depressed...

He was probably so far gone that he was just walking across O'Connell Bridge and thought "fúck this" and jumped in at that second. Maybe he just got made redundant and felt like he couldn't live anymore...