Summer 2010 - explosion at City Hall

alibabba

Just got a text from a mate saying all the windows in city hall have been blown out. Cops and fire are on scene at the moment

Sponge Bob

The tea urn was programmed to come on at 8am and to be nicely at the boil by the time the staff appeared at 9am. Must have forgotten to fill it last night

Head The Wall

Sponge Bob wrote: »

The tea urn was programmed to come on at 8am and to be nicely at the boil by the time the staff appeared at 9am. Must have forgotten to fill it last night

Jeez, the lengths those PS workers will go to for a day off

dilallio

On Galway Bay FM now.
Fire Brigade say it's not a piped Gas explosion.
Car Windows were also blown in.

Doesn't appear that anyone was hurt - Thank God it happened before the workers arrived.

Stench Blossoms

Has anyone got any links for this? Can't see anything on RTE or Galway Bay's website.

fatguy2k1

cops all over College Road at the moment. i'm just waiting for someone else to come into work so i can pop down there to have a look and getr some photos.

kruger248

RTE reporting it here now. Nothing more than what was said here though.

s_carnage

fatguy2k1 wrote: »

cops all over College Road at the moment. i'm just waiting for someone else to come into work so i can pop down there to have a look and getr some photos.

Make sure to post them up here

snubbleste

Bound to happen. The amount of methane expelled and spouted by councillors in the chamber had to escape at some point.

Which one is the City Hall? I always get them mixed up. Is the City Hall the one that nearest Cuba or is that the County Hall?

fatguy2k1

just down there, the lower right hand cornor of the building is were all the damage is. all the windows blown out. doesn't look like a gas leak as there were no scorch marks on the building. i'm trying to send the photo to my e-mail but it's not wokring for me at the moment.

kruger248

brokenlaptop wrote: »

Which one is the City Hall? I always get them mixed up. Is the City Hall the one that nearest Cuba or is that the County Hall?

The County Buildings are beside Cuba. City Hall is on College Road.

fatguy2k1

quality isn't the best but you get the idea.

Sponge Bob

Everybody has now gone home for the day bar security , they could not get in to park and they do not have to report to work if there is no free parking for them.

Stench Blossoms

Sponge Bob wrote: »

Everybody has now gone home for the day bar security , they could not get in to park and they do not have to report to work if there is no free parking for them.

Regardless if there was free parking or not, would your employers expect you to work in a building that an explosion had just happened in and the windows where gone?

Krieg

An explosion at city hall?

Someone call batman, looks like the joker is up to his old tricks.

snubbleste

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Regardless if there was free parking or not, would your employers expect you to work in a building that an explosion had just happened in and the windows where gone?

EBONY00

Would have my suspicions that this was not an accident, there are alot of people pissed off with the county and city councils in galway about the way they have run things over the last couple of years. They have been an absolute shambles.

ronnie3585

EBONY00 wrote: »

Would have my suspicions that this was not an accident, there are alot of people pissed off with the county and city councils in galway about the way they have run things over the last couple of years. They have been an absolute shambles.

Do the Gardai know of your suspicions?

EBONY00

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Do the Gardai know of your suspicions?

Stop talking nonsense, suspicions that someone out there might have taken the law into their own hands, not suspicious of someone i know

muppetkiller

First day of the World Cup ...Blow up the office....Stay at home for the day....Result

ronnie3585

EBONY00 wrote: »

Stop talking nonsense, suspicions that someone out there might have taken the law into their own hands, not suspicious of someone i know

No, I wasn't being sarcastic.

muppetkiller wrote: »

First day of the World Cup ...Blow up the office....Stay at home for the day....Result

Back of the net!

Stench Blossoms

EBONY00 wrote: »

Would have my suspicions that this was not an accident, there are alot of people pissed off with the county and city councils in galway about the way they have run things over the last couple of years. They have been an absolute shambles.

I'd say your delighted now with all the gardai focusing their attention on this and not looking for untaxed cars?

It will be interesting to hear what the cause was anyway but I don't think it was deliberate.

Tony Almeida

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

I'd say your delighted now with all the gardai focusing their attention on this and not looking for untaxed cars?

It will be interesting to hear what the cause was anyway but I don't think it was dilberate.

Maybe it wasn't deliberate either

kruger248

EBONY00 wrote: »

Would have my suspicions that this was not an accident, there are alot of people pissed off with the county and city councils in galway about the way they have run things over the last couple of years. They have been an absolute shambles.

I can see it now... The Joe Duffy Martyr's Brigade: bomb a government building in the morning, whine about the shocking price of explosives at lunchtime. It would be great, you'd be kept busy all day.:D

biko

EBONY00 wrote: »

Would have my suspicions that this was not an accident

If you have something real then contact the Garda, if not - please don't start rumours.

EBONY00

biko wrote: »

If you have something real then contact the Garda, if not - please don't start rumours.

Was not starting a rumour, dont accuse me of such

carmex21

I was working with a private company in Dublin and the water boiler in the basement blew up. All the first floor windows were blown out and the rooms pretty badly damaged.
I was working on the 2nd floor (5 floors in total). We had to stay for the day!!

So, yes, people are sometimes expected to work as long as phone lines etc are not damaged….
I guess it depends on how much of the building was damaged.

Glad no one was injured of course.

MoSeS_.

Was talking to my cousin there, he was in the building at the time.
He's usually in pretty early, 7:30 or so. Said he was talking to the fire officer who told him there was probably a build up of methane in that section of the building and that a light someone turned on eventually ignited it.

My cousin, having turned on the light in question, was thanking his lucky stars at this point that he hadn't been blown to kingdom come there and then.

Wompa1

Oh No! And on Whacky tie Friday!

carmex21

Gosh, glad your cousin is ok...scary stuff

Robbo

kruger248 wrote: »

I can see it now... The Joe Duffy Martyr's Brigade: bomb a government building in the morning, whine about the shocking price of explosives at lunchtime. It would be great, you'd be kept busy all day.:D

Is today "Funny" Friday?

fatguy2k1, I suggest that you wang a bloody great copyright notice on them pictures before some charlatan local news organisation steals them.

notel70

EBONY00 wrote: »

Would have my suspicions that this was not an accident, there are alot of people pissed off with the county and city councils in galway about the way they have run things over the last couple of years. They have been an absolute shambles.

your dead right, the concil are inefficent and waste my money, im pissed off about this so im going to blow up their building even though it will cost me a shed load more money to fix the building:rolleyes:

Dont think anyone is that stupid

kruger248

Robbo wrote: »

Is today "Funny" Friday?

Did you think that was inappropriate or just a bad joke?

Robbo

kruger248 wrote: »

Did you think that was inappropriate or just a bad joke?

I was wondering whether it could be blamed on the headshops or if Brush and crew would make an amusing ditty about it.

fatguy2k1

Robbo wrote: »

fatguy2k1, I suggest that you wang a bloody great copyright notice on them pictures before some charlatan local news organisation steals them.

no point really, the quality is terrible and the guy for the advertiser was up there with his telephoto lense and a tv3 cameraman was just arriving up as i was leaving.

hal9000

Sneak peek at whats going on in mill street right now.

fifib

some pictures up on Galway Advertiser FB page
Galway Advertiser Facebook

Stench Blossoms

fifib wrote: »

some pictures up on Galway Advertiser FB page
Galway Advertiser Facebook

..and fatguy2k1's picture is there as well. Tut tut.

shindig-jp

[HTML]City Hall was expected to stay closed for the day as technical examinations continued in the five badly damaged offices which house the payroll department, while structural checks were also carried out inside the building.

Press Association[/HTML]

A little jobbery for somebody ..........

Did anybody find the cheque book ?

inisboffin

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

..and fatguy2k1's picture is there as well. Tut tut.

Very similar, but isn't it taken with a different camera? Different tone.

If it is then Feckers!!:p

fifib

inisboffin wrote: »

Very similar, but isn't it taken with a different camera? Different tone.

If it is then Feckers!!:p

i think they mean this picture picture no.13
yep same pic alright, they just chopped off the people on either side

Stench Blossoms

inisboffin wrote: »

Very similar, but isn't it taken with a different camera? Different tone.

If it is then Feckers!!:p

I think it's the same. They just removed the Garda from the picture.

If that is fatguy2k1's picture and they didn't ask to use it I'm never ever ever buying the adverstiser again. (Yes I am aware it's free )

Galway City Hall has been extensively damaged by an explosion, which occurred inside the building shortly before 8am.

Gardaí and City Council staff say the cause of the explosion has not yet been established, but the possibility of an exploding water boiler is being investigated.

Bord Gáis has said the building is not serviced by natural gas.

A number of windows were blown out and damage was caused to the ground floor of the College Road building.

About a dozen of the 200 city hall staff were in the building at the time but none were injured.

A spokesman for the City Council said the building will remain closed until a full investigation takes place.

Latest from RTE says that it may have been a water boiler.

Bet ya the county council fitted it !

Mike...

tred

Sponge Bob wrote: »

Everybody has now gone home for the day bar security , they could not get in to park and they do not have to report to work if there is no free parking for them.

Majority park down a the greyhound track, reason there not allowed in, is in case there is a gas leak or something. I have family in there, so its all fun and games in here, but someone could have died today..

Eman Resu

tred wrote: »

Majority park down a the greyhound track, reason there not allowed in, is in case there is a gas leak or something. I have family in there, so its all fun and games in here, but someone could have died today..

I don't think anyone here would be making jokes if someone had been injured or killed. I can appreciate the worry when you hear that someone close to you is in danger but it's all over now and no one was hurt. Besides someone could have died all over the planet and in fact quite a few probably have. For all I know I could be dead before this post is written into the database! Hopefully I wont!

fatguy2k1

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

..and fatguy2k1's picture is there as well. Tut tut.

just saw that now - the cheek of them :mad:

fatguy2k1

someone else sent in the photo to them. who's the naughty bordie?:p i got a nice pm from the editor on facebook apoligising for the mix up. it's all cool.

Xiney

fatguy2k1 wrote: »

someone else sent in the photo to them.

suuuuure they did.

majiktripp

fatguy2k1 wrote: »

someone else sent in the photo to them.

Alright....Alright! It was me..... I got €10,000 and a new '10 Lexus for the scoop.

mikom

fatguy2k1 wrote: »

someone else sent in the photo to them.

I've some land you might be interested in buying............once the tide goes out, that is.