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Garda escort down the canal past 2 evenings

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    #32
    Reggie.
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    moc moc a moc wrote: »
    If you say who it was after they are gone I will report you to the authorities.

    I'm allowed to say it then :D


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    #33
    ProudDUB
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    I saw it yesterday. Was leaving the Phoenix Park @ Parkgate St, waiting to turn up Infirmary Road & had to wait for the cavalcade to go thru first...serious set up...about 6-8 motorbikes, then a couple of Garda Traffic Corp SUV's, then 2 big shiny black Range Rover type cars, then the grey mini bus (full of Secret Service peeps maybe?) and then a few more Guards on motorbikes, bringing up the rear.

    Initially, I thought it was some Nidge type character getting an escort to the Criminal Feck All Justice Building, which is just there on the corner of Infirmary Rd. Then I remembered that the US Ambassador tweeted that yer man (the head of the Joint Chiefs) was in town and paying him a visit, so I presumed it was him. Very impressive watching it go by in fairness. Be great to get an escort like that, everywhere you go 'wha?

    Surprised to hear he stayed in a bog standard hotel in town. Woulda thought that someone that important, would stay somewhere more secure, or somewhere that could be cordoned off and guarded better, like Farmleigh or the US Embassy itself.


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    #34
    SMJSF
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    I dunno if this has any relevance, but at around 11am, there were at least 30 gardai on O'Connell Street, and a hell of a lot of photographers out from Parnell square to Trinity.... Does anyone know what that was about?


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    #35
    whiskeyman
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    SMJSF wrote: »
    there were at least 30 gardai on O'Connell Street, ?
    donut-7-e1375957951196-406x500.jpg


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    Lux23
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    ProudDUB wrote: »
    Surprised to hear he stayed in a bog standard hotel in town. Woulda thought that someone that important, would stay somewhere more secure, or somewhere that could be cordoned off and guarded better, like Farmleigh or the US Embassy itself.

    The Conrad are very well set up for security, you can block book a whole floor and have security guys on the service and guest lifts. It's not easy to wander around it like you can in some hotels, people will stop you and then you have easy access to government buildings and embassies.


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    #37
    HamsterFace
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    Lux23 wrote: »
    The Conrad are very well set up for security, you can block book a whole floor and have security guys on the service and guest lifts. It's not easy to wander around it like you can in some hotels, people will stop you and then you have easy access to government buildings and embassies.

    I was there for a meeting during the week and did notice a garda posted on the door which I wondered about at the time,

    So who is it? Blair's or Bushes or wha' ?


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    Cianos
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    We're right on Harold's Cross bridge and I see this type of escort going down the canal every 2-3 weeks or so.


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    #39
    HamsterFace
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    Cianos wrote: »
    We're right on Harold's Cross bridge and I see this type of escort going down the canal every 2-3 weeks or so.

    That could also, and quite likely is, currency being sent to Cathal brugha barracks


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    [Deleted User]
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    HamsterFace wrote: »
    That could also, and quite likely is, currency being sent to Cathal brugha barracks

    Nope, that would be the EOD team.


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    #41
    HamsterFace
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Nope, that would be the EOD team.

    EOD?


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    #42
    Dyr
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    whiskeyman wrote: »
    donut-7-e1375957951196-406x500.jpg

    What are the donuts like in there these days?


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    #43
    Reggie.
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    HamsterFace wrote: »
    EOD?

    Explosive ordnance disposal. ....... the bomb squad


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    #44
    harry Bailey esq
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    dball wrote: »
    would it be the new rose of tralee?

    Sounds plausible to me,Although I did hear something on the wireless about similar going down the M50 this afternoon,a lot of people reckon it was just a large cash delivery


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    Naos
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    Seen two, what looked like Army choppers, doing circles over the Ashtown area today - any idea what that was?


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    #46
    HamsterFace
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    Could it be anything to do with the increasing UFO activity over the wicklow mountains?


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    #47
    FloatingVoter
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    HamsterFace wrote: »
    Could it be anything to do with the increasing UFO activity over the wicklow mountains?

    Nah, with the weather we're getting any space aliens would be heading for the Med. Unless they were out of petrol.


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    #48
    expectationlost
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    martin dempsey the chairman of the joint chief of staff of the us military https://twitter.com/USEmbassyDublin/status/633774003497345024


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