Bomb scare on o'connell street (Dublin)

iMax

Sitting in an office in town & someone just came in sayin there's a bomb scare in o'connell at. They were stopped from going down it. No further info.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/army-called-in-to-defuse-two-more-devices-at-dublins-dunsink-tip-head-504598.html

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/suspicious-device-found-on-dublins-amiens-st-504617.html

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0511/connolly.html

There's been a few scares city wide this morning and yesterday.

Even in Glasnevin/Ballymun where I am, you can hear tons of sirens in the distance.

Something's going doooooown!!

Could be to do with next weeks visits I say.

Mark200

There's been a 'security alert' nearly every day for the last couple of weeks. Pretty annoying.

stovelid

I saw something very suspicious looking on the boardwalk this morning - a guy not wearing unpleasant polyester sports-wear.

DrumSteve

I don't think is is viable... I reckon the Garda/Bomb Squad are rehearsing so to speak... Beside I work behind O'connell Street and can't see too much going down. Though if that changes I'll post it up here.

phasers

There's stupid posters all over the city opposing the Queen's visit (with horribly misspelled Irish on most of them) Do people actually think they'll get anywhere near Lizzie or are they just trying to look like hardmen? As if she gives a toss that a gang of scummers don't like her!

the groutch

Bin Laden's mates must have been on here reading what people were saying about him

allanb49

Amien St has closed too they say

getz

phasers wrote: »

There's stupid posters all over the city opposing the Queen's visit (with horribly misspelled Irish on most of them) Do people actually think they'll get anywhere near Lizzie or are they just trying to look like hardmen? As if she gives a toss that a gang of scummers don't like her!

dont know what they are trying to achieve,if one of these things go off,its only irish people that will be killed, mind you their leader did say,quote; he would burn dublin into the ground.

Brandog

Probably just training for the unlikely terrorist attack on betty

seamus

They're searching every nook and cranny in the city, including lifting manhole covers and welding them shut.

I imagine these security alerts are the Gardai search teams finding "suspicious devices" that have been there for years, just no-one ever saw them before.

SEPT 23 1989

Maybe its those obese lads in funny wollen masks up to their old trickery

syklops

With all the extra work the bomb squad is getting and will be getting, they should really kit them out with a couple of helicopters.

I know someone is going to say "We cant afford it", but seriously, I am sure the money can be found somewhere.

Getting that robot across town(Dublin) in rush hour traffic must be a nightmare. Not to mention the time it would take to get it to the airport or to another county.

With the number of bomb scares happening at the moment, it's easy for people to get complacent about suspicious devices. EOD(bomb squad) need to be there as soon as possible.

Mark200

Army has arrived...

http://lockerz.com/s/100660806

syklops

I don't like the look of where that is positioned.

Prop Joe

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0511/connolly.html

WTF !

That pic shows Amien Street, thought the bomb scare was on O Connell Street?


http://lockerz.com/s/100660806

MagicSean

The only way anyone will get near the queen is with a bomb. They will not be able to do anything to her without killing and injuring Irish citizens and security personnel and losing all their southern support in the process. This is all pointless showing off by the dissidents.

Paulyh

What the hell, I'm in my office at the top of O'Connell St. (bridge end) and have noticed nothing!
All I need is a excuse to go home for the day

JONJO THE MISER

People are more than likely planting these to check out the response times of the secruity forces.

January

It's a bomb scare at Connolly Station, not O'Connell Street...

Prop Joe

Jake1 wrote: »

That pic shows Amien Street, thought the bomb scare was on O Connell Street?


http://lockerz.com/s/100660806

New scare this morning..getting dodgy

syklops

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

People are more than likely planting these to check out the response times of the secruity forces.

You're using the term loosely I see.

Joe10000

Her trip will be cancelled yet.

Mark200

Trains from Belfast are leaving their passengers off at Howth Junction with no connecting Dart to town! Mad

Edit - Sorry, they're getting a bus transfer!

MagicSean

Joe10000 wrote: »

Her trip will be cancelled yet.

No it won't. It will go ahead, loads of people will be arrested for acting the dickhead in different locations, and she'll leave without a bother. Then Indymedia will post all the "Garda brutality" videos, we'll debate them for a week on after hours and Joe Duffy, and the go back to our regular lives.

Mark200

It's over. Nothing blew up.

amacachi

Which Dublin?

JONJO THE MISER

Mark200 wrote: »

It's over. Nothing blew up.

Imagine that:rolleyes:

amacachi

amacachi wrote: »

Which Dublin?

Dublin Texas.

Schulz

Amien street reopened. Bomb squad took the "suspicious device away". They had the remote control bomb disposal tractor out to play.

stop

Schulz wrote: »

Amien street reopened. Bomb squad took the "suspicious device away". They had the remote control bomb disposal tractor out to play.

*awaits boom in Rathmines area*

bryaner

Seanbeag1 wrote: »

The only way anyone will get near the queen is with a bomb. They will not be able to do anything to her without killing and injuring Irish citizens and security personnel and losing all their southern support in the process. This is all pointless showing off by the dissidents.

What southern support..

DrumSteve

bryaner wrote: »

What southern support..

They have support down here. A very vocal minority but a minority nonetheless.

getz

bryaner wrote: »

What southern support..

just mention brittish on a thread ,and they will all come out of the woodwork,

Dartz

Hah, the bomb scare at Guinness was caused by a bubble-wrapped photograph of a colleague which'd fallen unnoticed behind the radar.


With all these false alarms... if you saw a backpack or the like dropped at the side of the road, would you report it?

People are just getting ruffled by her Queenliness coming.... and suddenly the usual Dublin detritus has become a lethal threat. A week ago, it would've just been rubbish not worth bothering over.

biko

Local thread here, let me know if it goes off - then it's national news.