Bomb Squad responding to Alert in Dublin City Center?

homerjay2005

just been announed on the Radio, anybody know anything about it? Stephens green west and york street area.


http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/royal-college-of-surgeons-calls-in-bomb-disposal-team-475940.html

Royal College of Surgeons calls in bomb disposal team
01/10/2010 - 13:44:10
The Army bomb disposal team has been called to an incident in Dublin.
It is understood a substance being used at the Royal College of Surgeons has solidified and now poses a danger.
York Street and St Stephen's Green have been closed off.

orourkeda

Joe the trucker must be looking for a parking space today

Oranage2

I'm not one to advocate Rasism but this sounds all to familiar to the works of Allah. Anyone up for beating up Muslims just in case?

stovelid

homerjay2005 wrote: »

just been announed on the Radio, anybody know anything about it? Stephens green west and york street area.

Nice one.

A decent-strength blast could take out:

The College of Surgeons

A handful of Luas beggars

Dundrum Town Centre-bound shoppers

The corpo flats in Cuffe street

Swan-stalking non-nationals in The Green

Krystle nightclub

Talk about a death-toll with broad appeal in AH.

NothingMan

Oranage2 wrote: »

Anyone up for beating up Muslims just in case?

No way. They're all trained ninjas! That's why they wear those robes!

crapmanjoe

loud sounding bang there around city centre

Was it a controlled explosion?

orourkeda

stovelid wrote: »

Nice one.

A decent-strength blast could take out:

The College of Surgeons

A handful of Luas beggars

Dundrum Town Centre-bound shoppers

The corpo flats in Cuffe street

Swan-stalking non-nationals in The Green

Krystle nightclub

Talk about a death-toll with broad appeal in AH.

You'd need a nuclear warhead attached to take out krystle from York St

Saadyst

I'm working in an office in stephen's green, didn't hear anything? (leeson st side)

homerjay2005

problem is in the royal college of surgeons! something has gone wrong with an experiment there.

stovelid

orourkeda wrote: »

You'd need a nuclear warhead attached to take out krystle from York St

Away, and leave me to my dreams.

Cookie_Monster

someone's appendix went off

mp3kid

Saadyst wrote: »

I'm working in an office in stephen's green

I know a thinly veiled brag when i see one.

Snakeblood

mp3kid wrote: »

I know a thinly veiled brag when i see one.

HE'S GOT A JOB. GET HIM.

orourkeda

stovelid wrote: »

Away, and leave me to my dreams.

Then we'd have no copper face jacks left either and we cant be havin' that.

biko

Nothing on the news sites.
What station?

gleep

Saadyst wrote: »

I'm working in an office in stephen's green, didn't hear anything? (leeson st side)

Anglo?

I-Shot-Jr

Ah more than likely some aul biddy saw an unattended empty plastic bag and called the guards saying she saw a bomb.

Probably nothing to it.

Saadyst

gleep wrote: »

Anglo?

Erm, no :pac:

I'm just wondering since I'm on lunch soon and I don't want to be maimed by some explosion - not until I get a nice sambo anyway.

stovelid

Maybe it's the sound of commercial property prices imploding?

RoflHarris

A substance at RSCI has solidified and now poses a danger!
Ha!

straight from the news

orourkeda

stovelid wrote: »

Maybe it's the sound of commercial property prices imploding?

That would sound like an earthquake

jaakul

I heard chemical spill? From someone who heard from someone admittedly

homerjay2005

I-Shot-Jr wrote: »

Ah more than likely some aul biddy saw an unattended empty plastic bag and called the guards saying she saw a bomb.

Probably nothing to it.

reports saying its not a bomb, but the bomb squad is involved. dont think anybody knows whats happening, they said some hazardous liquid in the royal college of surgeons is posing a threat.

not sure what station is on the radio here but they have given 2 updates now on it.

Professey Chin

Someone check Street View!

I-Shot-Jr

homerjay2005 wrote: »

reports saying its not a bomb, but the bomb squad is involved. dont think anybody knows whats happening, they said some hazardous liquid in the royal college of surgeons is posing a threat.

not sure what station is on the radio here but they have given 2 updates now on it.

I wonder what they could mean by hazardous liquid?

Renn

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Someone check Street View!

For a year old picture of the scene? Good thinking sir!

Ghost Train

jaakul wrote: »

I heard chemical spill? From someone who heard from someone admittedly

seems to be the case if twitter is to be believed

pmooneynet on twitter wrote:

St stephens green carpark closed. Chemical leak. Guess where my car is
6 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®

homerjay2005

ya, its confirmed now potential danger at the college and bomb aquad are attending.

Archeron

I-Shot-Jr wrote: »

I wonder what they could mean by hazardous liquid?

Cillit bang extra strength.

Piste

Oh dear, it's Freshers' week and I'm meant to be partying it up in RCSI tonight



/selfish



I really hope it's nothing serious, I've a lot of friends in there at tutorials at the moment =/

Pudsy33

Piste wrote: »

Oh dear, it's Freshers' week and I'm meant to be partying it up in RCSI tonight



/selfish



I really hope it's nothing serious, I've a lot of friends in there at tutorials at the moment =/

Don't worry whole place evacuated

homerjay2005

http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/royal-college-of-surgeons-calls-in-bomb-disposal-team-475940.html

Piste

Do you know which building it was? 123 or the modern one?

Pudsy33

Piste wrote: »

Do you know which building it was? 123 or the modern one?

123. Was a compound called picric acid, highly explosive when solidified. College should reopen within the hour

stovelid

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Don't worry whole place evacuated

Cadaver big job on their hands to clear the RCSI that quickly.

Piste

My friend just said "Pitric Acid was found stored dangerously during a health & safety inspection. It's explosive (kind of like TNT) so they had to call in the bomb squad to remove it." Shouldn't be too serious so.

Biggins

Piste wrote: »

My friend just said "Pitric Acid was found stored dangerously during a health & safety inspection. It's explosive (kind of like TNT) so they had to call in the bomb squad to remove it." Shouldn't be too serious so.

Sounds like someone is going to get their hands slapped over something.

jackiebaron

Piste wrote: »

Oh dear, it's Freshers' week and I'm meant to be partying it up in RCSI tonight



/selfish



I really hope it's nothing serious, I've a lot of friends in there at tutorials at the moment =/

Will you be getting bombed?

Piste

Hopefully only in one way.

-Leelo-

jackiebaron wrote: »

Will you be getting bombed?

:pac:

Professey Chin

Renn wrote: »

For a year old picture of the scene? Good thinking sir!

Im in the future.....

GizAGoOfYerGee

homerjay2005 wrote: »

just been announed on the Radio, anybody know anything about it? Stephens green west and york street area.

Can´t see anything on Google Street View

NothingMan

GizAGoOfYerGee wrote: »

Can´t see anything on Google Street View

Eh. That's not quite how...... nevermind.

mack81

GizAGoOfYerGee wrote: »

Can´t see anything on Google Street View

Oh Dear!!!

Simplenough

GizAGoOfYerGee wrote: »

Can´t see anything on Google Street View

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Renn wrote: »

For a year old picture of the scene? Good thinking sir!

NothingMan wrote: »

Eh. That's not quite how...... nevermind.

mack81 wrote: »

Oh Dear!!!

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Well done lads, you have sufficiently failed at grasping the simplest of jokes. Congratulations.

frank reynolds

ooooh it'd be lovely if they took out coppers.

biko

Link and content added to OP

Slydice

just back from it

they did a controlled explosion from what I could tell

have heard louder fireworks

also on RTE:http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1001/dublin_traffic.html

Some road closures are currently in place in Dublin city centre.

York Street, St Stephen's Green West and Mercier Street are all closed and expected to remain closed up to 3pm.

St Stephen's Green is closed at the York St junction and traffic is being diverted via Dawson St instead.
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Gardaí are advising commuters and motorists planning to travel to or through the city to expect delays.

A number of agencies, including An Garda Síochána and the Army, are currently dealing with a substance in the area which requires specialist handling.

The substance is being moved from one location in the area to another location.

Piste

Got an email from the college basically confirming what i said earlier in the thread

trellheim

that's not an acid you see every day .....
from the wiki :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picric_acid

Uses

By far the largest use has been in munitions and explosives, as discussed above.

In microscopy, picric acid is a reagent for staining samples, e.g., Gram staining. It has found some use in organic chemistry for the preparation of crystalline salts of organic bases (picrates) for the purpose of identification and characterization.

In metallurgy a picric acid etch has been commonly used in optical metallography to reveal prior austenite grain boundaries in ferritic steels. The hazards associated with picric acid has meant it has largely been replaced with other chemical etchants.

Bouin's picro-formol is a preservative solution used for biological specimens.

Workplace drug testing utilizes picric acid for the Jaffe Reaction to test for creatinine. It forms a colored complex that can be measured using spectroscopy.

Much less commonly, wet picric acid has been used as a skin dye or temporary branding agent. It reacts with proteins in the skin to give a dark brown color that may last as long as a month.

In the early 20th century, picric acid was stocked in pharmacies as an antiseptic and as a treatment for burns, malaria, herpes, and smallpox. It was most notably used for the treatment of burns suffered by victims of the Hindenburg disaster in 1937.