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Dorset Street Closed - 5 January 2010

  • 05-01-2010 1:24pm
    #1
    KC61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,316 ✭✭✭


    From Dublin Bus:

    http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/News-Centre/Travel-News/Dorset-Street-closed-to-traffic/

    Dublin Bus wishes to advise customers that due to a bomb scare, Dorset Street will be closed to traffic from the junction of Eccles Street to Gardiner Street from 11:30 on 5th January until further notice. The following routes will be diverted via Belvidere Road and Gardiner Street -

    11/a/b, 13/a, 16/a, 33, 40/a/d, 41/b/c, 746.

    Routes 121 and 122 will be using Berkeley Road and North Circular Road.


    Dublin Bus apologises for any inconvenience caused.


Comments

  • #2
    trad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭trad


    Apparently some foreign government was carrying out a security exercise with live explosives http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0105/dorset.html


  • #3
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    RTE wrote:
    The man and the explosives ended up in Ireland as part of a test exercise which appears to have gone wrong

    :eek:

    Love to know what country that was


  • #4
    KC61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,316 ✭✭✭KC61


    It would appear that the roads have now reopened.


  • #5
    Victor
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    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    :eek:

    Love to know what country that was
    Slovakia according to the RTÉ article.


  • #6
    bmaxi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭bmaxi


    Am I alone in thinking this was a reckless exercise, presumably it wouldn't have had a detonator but are we confident enough that something else wouldn't set it off?
    Government needs to have a strong word with the Slovaks.


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  • #7
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,574 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Such tests are frequent and ultimately you need to use the real stuff for this particular test.

    However, certain other test can use "dud" material, e.g. an outline of a gun, not a real gun is used to check the diligence of those using X-ray scanners.


  • #8
    bmaxi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭bmaxi


    Victor wrote: »
    Such tests are frequent and ultimately you need to use the real stuff for this particular test.

    However, certain other test can use "dud" material, e.g. an outline of a gun, not a real gun is used to check the diligence of those using X-ray scanners.

    Looks to me, from the wording of the article, that this was real stuff. The authorities should have known the moment the baggage was loaded on the plane that security had failed. I think it is reckless in the extreme to allow the aircraft to take off, presumably they know better.


  • #9
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    90kg? Typo?


  • #10
    GerardKeating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,804 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    Jonathan wrote: »
    90kg? Typo?

    90 grammes...


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