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if a bomb went off

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  • 19-04-2013 1:00pm
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    cena
    Registered Users Posts: 9,967 ✭✭✭


    If a bomb went off in Ireland say like what happened in Boston. How quick would the guards be to find who did it?

    It just seem very fast that the f.b.i could find these guys in Boston.


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    IM0
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    depends, what trousers would they be wearing


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    vitani
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    IM0 wrote: »
    depends, what trousers would they be wearing

    'Distinctive' ones, probably. Seems to be the usual description on Crimecall.


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    39 years and counting


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    Super-Rush
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    3 days, 4 hours and 33 minutes.


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    donmeister
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    A grenade in a tayto bag wouldnt have the same devastating effect.


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    kfallon
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    Sure anytime a bomb went off in Ireland before those that planted it were usually kind enough to ring in to let us know they did it. No need for the Gardaí at all, at all!

    In fact they were often sound enough to let us know beforehand where the bomb even was!


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    IzzyWizzy
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    What do you mean 'if'? Plenty of bombs have gone off in Ireland.


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    mikom
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    Tommy Tiernan back when he was good said it best..........

    "You could be in a pub in Dublin...a pub made of christmas trees and petrol...wedged in between a fireworks factory and a juvenile delinquents home...on halloween...and if the fire alarm went off, sure, you'd look for the fire. If you didn't see it, it didn't exist! If it kept going, you'd start to make jokes about it! "ha ha is that my phone?!"


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    RidleyRider
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    The lads in their Nike air clothes don't seem smart enough to set a bomb off in Ireland..


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    Junco Partner
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    really? a bomb goes off in Boston, and After Hours manages to twist it into yet another thinly veiled "Ireland sucks" thread.
    If there's one thing we do well it's an Inferiority complex. :P


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    13spanner
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    I'll be keeping clear of marathons for a while.


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    cena
    Registered Users Posts: 9,967 ✭✭✭cena


    IzzyWizzy wrote: »
    What do you mean 'if'? Plenty of bombs have gone off in Ireland.

    I mean a big bomb. I know the IRA have let bombs off in ireland


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    Super-Rush
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    cena wrote: »
    I mean a big bomb. I know the IRA have let bombs off in ireland

    They let off big bombs as well.


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    cena
    Registered Users Posts: 9,967 ✭✭✭cena


    Junco Partner wrote: »
    really? a bomb goes off in Boston, and After Hours manages to twist it into yet another thinly veiled "Ireland sucks" thread.
    If there's one thing we do well it's an Inferiority complex. :P

    Where has this come from?


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    cena
    Registered Users Posts: 9,967 ✭✭✭cena


    Super-Rush wrote: »
    They let off big bombs as well.

    I am not that old to know what the IRA has really done.


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    IM0
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    13spanner wrote: »
    I'll be keeping clear of marathons for a while.

    just dont try and finish them and you''ll be grand


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    markie29
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    cena wrote: »
    I am not that old to know what the IRA has really done.

    Other terrorist groups have let big bombs off in ireland.


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    cena
    Registered Users Posts: 9,967 ✭✭✭cena


    markie29 wrote: »
    Other terrorist groups have let big bombs off in ireland.

    Like who if you don't mind me asking


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    Junco Partner
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    the uda or uvf left off a bomb in dublin in the early seventies i think.


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    Ziphius
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    cena wrote: »
    Like who if you don't mind me asking

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_and_monaghan_bombings


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    markie29
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    cena wrote: »
    Like who if you don't mind me asking

    UVF...the bombings in 1974


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    Bogger77
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    cena wrote: »
    I mean a big bomb. I know the IRA have let bombs off in ireland

    you mean like Omagh(1998), Claudy (1972), Enniskillen (1987), Dublin (1974), Monaghan(1974), WarrenPoint (1979), Black Friday 1972, Newry Police Station bombing (1985), Shankhill Road Fish shop bombing (1993)

    never been any big bombs in Ireland that have killed!


    in context, 3 people so far have died, many have bad injuries, in Boston, all have the above had 9 or more fatalities


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    Seachmall
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    It depends on where the bomb went off. If it went off in the Dublin St. Paddy's Day Parade we'd have a better chance of finding the bomber than if it went off in an empty field in Cork.

    At the same time we wouldn't have anywhere near the manpower the U.S. has to collect and go through images and footage. Nor would we have the technology they have to automate a large amount of that process.


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    Bogger77
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    cena wrote: »
    I am not that old to know what the IRA has really done.
    if you're old enough to be using boards, you're old enough to use Google or Wikipedia.


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    IM0
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    markie29 wrote: »
    Other terrorist groups have let big bombs off in ireland.

    I read that in the way they mention a brand on tv, then say there are other brands as good which do just as good a job :pac:


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    krudler
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    cena wrote: »
    I mean a big bomb. I know the IRA have let bombs off in ireland

    Omagh?


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    20260622
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    mikom wrote: »
    Tommy Tiernan back when he was good said it best..........

    When was that?


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    Amirani
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    Bogger77 wrote: »
    in context, 2 people so far have died, many have bad injuries, in Boston, all have the above had 9 or more fatalities

    3.


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    Anyone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    Seems this thread is a case of "if it isn't on youtube I never heard of it".


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    maithanfear
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    If it was a political group they would find out pretty fast but if it was the lone wolf type, probably never. It took until the capture of Larry Murphy until they discovered a serial killer was operating in Ireland.


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