garda helicopter on the southside?

Kitty-kitty

Does anyone know what the story is / was with the garda helicopter circling the Rathgar / Harold's Cross area? It's been going on for the last half hour or so, flying fairly low.

Micilin Muc

I can hear it in Ranelagh, it has been around the area quite a bit in the past few weeks. Maybe somebody with a scanner could tell us, I never seem to see the action!

PCPhoto

prob tracking some scummers ...fair play to 'em

6ix

Good question! It's been directly above my house most of the time, hovering about. Expecting the door to be kicked in any minute soon :eek:

Heisenberg.

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Kitty-kitty

At first it was exciting, now it's just freaking me out a bit (=| not that I've got anything to hide). Would be cool to know what's going on though.

Micilin Muc

Scien wrote: »

Starting to annoy me now... It's been going around in a circle for the past 20 - 25 mins.

Try working from home, it'll do your head in after a while!

It seems to be above Kenilworth Square area now ...

vinylqueen

Haha ahh the wonders of the Internet. Just googled 'garda helicopter rathgar' & found this thread. Can see it from my flat window hovering... Anyone know what's going on?

Jev/N

It's fairly common around here in Ranelagh, at least a few times a week and not just around the weekends

6ix

Micilin Muc wrote: »

Try working from home, it'll do your head in after a while!

It seems to be above Kenilworth Square area now ...

Or writing a 10k essay

Hopefully they'll catch whoever needs catching soon! I used to see it a lot more frequently when I lived in Glasnevin but not so much in Rathgar/Rathmines... oooh, I think its gone!

Micilin Muc

6ix wrote: »

Or writing a 10k essay

Hopefully they'll catch whoever needs catching soon!

I'm doing both! It'll go after a little while and we'll all be none the wiser!

Victor

Shhhhh! They're after me.

Nevyn

Ah thats were it is thank the gods got sick of it last weekend hovering for 40 mins at 2am.

Heisenberg.

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finty

You poor southsiders best stay away from cabra/finglas.


I came on to start a thread wondering why the Garda chopper wasn't flying overhead when i saw this

lintdrummer

Heard it there a few minutes ago, Leinster Rd area. Gone now.

I'll never forget my friend telling me about the time his flatmate rang terenure garda station at 3am to tell them to tell them that he couldn't sleep becase of the garda helicopter over the house! He gave them a right earfull apparently! They told him that it was doing important work and would be gone shortly.

bryaner

Micilin Muc wrote: »

I can hear it in Ranelagh, it has been around the area quite a bit in the past few weeks. Maybe somebody with a scanner could tell us, I never seem to see the action!

Are the guards not gone digital hence most scanners are defunct?

Victor

finty wrote: »

You poor southsiders best stay away from cabra/finglas.

Actually, where I live is normally very quiet (I can hear the trains in the middle of the night from about 4km away), but when there is a helicopter nearby, the sound reverberates a lot.

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Thaedydal wrote: »

Ah thats were it is thank the gods got sick of it last weekend hovering for 40 mins at 2am.

finty wrote: »

You poor southsiders best stay away from cabra/finglas.


I came on to start a thread wondering why the Garda chopper wasn't flying overhead when i saw this

Ha! that's what I thought when I saw this thread. Jaysis, I was getting worried about them, at least I know where they are now. :pac:

Gavin "shels"

Makes a change not having it flying above around my area, months on end without fail it would be around, I'd say the half dozen Garda bikes and patrols that do the rounds are enough these days.

JosDel

Gavin shels wrote: »

Makes a change not having it flying above around my area, months on end without fail it would be around, I'd say the half dozen Garda bikes and patrols that do the rounds are enough these days.

Same here Gav...I live down around the docks area and it can be a right pain in the Ass sometimes..

How Strange

I thought it was very quiet around Ballyfermot last night!

Victor

I didn't want to post it at the time, but they were going so far as to search gardens and wheelie bins.

Did anyone hear what happened?

cosmic

Gavin shels wrote: »

Makes a change not having it flying above around my area, months on end without fail it would be around, I'd say the half dozen Garda bikes and patrols that do the rounds are enough these days.

+ 1

Bucklesman

You southsiders actually started a thread? I don't even look nowadays.













(Too busy hiding)

bubbly123

It was so annoying!! Right over my house, had to put ear plugs in!

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Everyone can relax, everything back to normal, Garda Helicopter spotted over Finglas 20mins ago.

Victor

Des wrote: »

Everyone can relax, everything back to normal, Garda Helicopter spotted over Finglas 20mins ago.

You do know they have several of them.

caseyann

Way to tell the criminals you are coming sirens blaring and helicopters flying over head :rolleyes:

Was over my house the other night head was thumping

robz18

bump

The thing is going mad over clonskeagh/mount merrion/ucd kinda area...anyone know whats up?

Gavin "shels"

robz18 wrote: »

The thing is going mad over clonskeagh/mount merrion/ucd kinda area...anyone know whats up?

Leaving Certers who finished today going wild!?

shogunpower

there is a sign in letterkenny in donegal to slow down garda helicopter in operation, must be for the upcoming rally at the weekend.

Grid.

Was in the Dun Laoghaire/Sandycove area about a week ago and made an awful racket, got me out of bed at around 1am and just kept circling for the best part of an hour.......at one stage it was over my house for several minutes.....thought the commando's were gonna land on the roof!!!:eek:

It didn't seem to have the spot light underneath like they use when searching for someone but more of a red flashing beam. I couldn't figure out what they were up to at all. Heard it the next night around the same time but seemed to be hovering around Dalkey/Killiney!!

anto86

i done this a few times got a great laugh from it annoying them i stuck my head out my window one them one's that open out and with a torch made blinking flash's on and off it does be gas when they shine that torch thing back in the window never seen my room so bright simply close the curtains till it go's away and start all over again

Grid.

anto86 wrote: »

i done this a few times got a great laught from it annoyin them i stuck my head out my window one them one's that open out and with a torch made blinking flash's on and off it does be gas when they shine that torch thing back in the window never seen my room so bright simply close the curtains till it go's away and start all over again

RMD

Gridlock wrote: »

Was in the Dun Laoghaire/Sandycove area about a week ago and made an awful racket, got me out of bed at around 1am and just kept circling for the best part of an hour.......at one stage it was over my house for several minutes.....thought the commando's were gonna land on the roof!!!:eek:

It didn't seem to have the spot light underneath like they use when searching for someone but more of a red flashing beam. I couldn't figure out what they were up to at all. Heard it the next night around the same time but seemed to be hovering around Dalkey/Killiney!!

Spotlights are long gone and for good reason, they use thermal optics now I'm pretty sure. Easier to track a criminal than with a spotlight and it doesn't alert the criminal that he's being watched to the same extent.

stovelid

robz18 wrote: »

bump

The thing is going mad over clonskeagh/mount merrion/ucd kinda area...anyone know whats up?

They're after some burglars from Finglas.



/joke. Don't ban me, Des.