Fireworks

artanevilla

What's the fùcking story, it's August.

Burzum

Yeah they are hopping them out of it here in Carlow aswell.

retalivity

I live in an apt next to a small park within the canals, there have been fireworks out there pretty much every day for the last 2 weeks. Little ****s firing them at each other, traffic and up to balconies and windows as well.

Caranica

Have been following it on Twitter. Started here in D15 on Monday but have seen some Dublin postcodes where it's week 3 of it. It's horrendous, going on here since lunchtime today and some were clearly launched into my development.

Know who's responsible for the daytime stuff. Report going into the Gardai and ASB unit of the Council as it's a council area about 1km away that the kids are from. 2 about 14 and 2 maybe 11 at most. Don't know where they're getting them from but they're terrorising residents and animals. We have woods facing our entrance which is a major starling roosting place and the night ones are aiming in there :mad:

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not generalising about where the kids come from, I saw them come out of their houses. I'm in a big development made up of small estates and the Council bought one estate in its entirety a few years back.

ClydeTallyBump

In Dublin 1. It has been terrible today. Just constant fireworks going off. It's been ongoing since July.

ixoy

D5 here - going on all week, much more last night and slightly less so tonight. Hard to pinpoint the direction (it's a little off in the distance) but it's crazy that so many parts of Dublin are now reporting it. Lots of people, as mentioned on Twitter, and there's a fairly big thread on it on /r/Dublin too. Wonder if anyone is looking at the little scumbags doing this.

Pinch Flat

I think they try them out 2 months before Halloween then keep the best ones

Beersmith

None stop for the last week here, day is nearly worse than night.

I would have thought the nature of fireworks would be it was easy for the garda to actually locate them

Strumms

Were being fired off for over two hours non stop till just after midnight tonight, nearest lot to me were about three quarters of a kilometer away..

Maybe covid money being free.. knuckle heads will knuckle. Save all the cash for the holidays, somewhere nice they’ve not been before? a nice new car, new furniture or some home improvements ? Nooooo, piss it away on something that cracks, bangs and brightens the sky. Yayyyyy. Must have been about a grand of covid money shot skywards,

Pity people in the community can’t or don’t have enough sway to influence positive neighborly behavior...I’d be kicking off if it was on my doorstep.

humberklog

D.13 here. They've been going for the last 2 weeks. Mostly going off in the halting site opposite the Hilton. Last night a full half hour display went off about 1.15a.m.

Having a conversation about with neighbours/friends and they wer of the mind it's to do with Confimations.

Spanish Eyes

None here YET! I suppose they are buying them online or something, or are there suppliers here?

Boredom.

artanevilla

Quiet enough tonight.

ixoy

artanevilla wrote: »

Quiet enough tonight.

Same. Going by your username, I'm guessing you're in Artane so you're probably hearing the same ones as I am (in Killester, near the Artane side).

Caranica

Quieter tonight in D15 but just started again

Gavin "shels"

Loads going off in D8 in the past few weeks.

neris

I was driving home from work about 2 weeks ago down around grand canal dock and was 2 or 3 groups of kids going around letting of fire works at one stage one group fired one at another.

Saw something on facebook this morning that its trying to see which houses have dogs so they can identify the houses for snatching the dogs.

Tabnabs

A problem in D24 (surprise, surprise) and D22 I understand also. reports of fireworks day and night for a month now.

Birneybau

Tabnabs wrote: »

A problem in D24 (surprise, surprise) and D22 I understand also. reports of fireworks day and night for a month now.

D12 this afternoon, some little fcukers letting them off.

As for finding out which houses have dogs...:pac:

utyh2ikcq9z76b

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

None here YET! I suppose they are buying them online or something, or are there suppliers here?

You get them on the border around Newry. Good profit made just by bringing them down the road and flipping them

blackbox

Lots going off in Wicklow town yesterday.

I have to wonder what life is like for people like this who are unable to postpone gratification.

Not only can they not wait for Halloween - they can't even wait until it gets dark!

imme

Plenty of money for fireworks, no money for rent, it seems.:cool:

https://www.thejournal.ie/dublin-city-council-5-4956180-Jan2020/

jpm4

In Phibsorough now near the basin....can see the little scrotes pegging it down my road.....:(

Cienciano

I'm in Dublin 14, every night recently here too

Samuel T. Cogley

Cienciano wrote: »

I'm in Dublin 14, every night recently here too

Surely these things don't happen on the South side! :eek:

boombang

imme wrote: »

Plenty of money for fireworks, no money for rent, it seems.:cool:

https://www.thejournal.ie/dublin-city-council-5-4956180-Jan2020/

Irish society is just so stupid in what it tolerates. We're funding sizeable pockets of the population with no inclination for work or responsibility. There's no meaningful enforcement to protect those living next to scumbags.

spurious

Someone's little darling threw one into traffic just before you go south over the Samuel Beckett yesterday evening. I honestly thought it was a bomb, the noise of it. This wasn't just a banger, it was some really loud one. Cue women with prams doing a sudden sprint along the path and wobbling cyclists. Throw a lorry into the mix and it could have been really serious.

God bless those little chaps, sure they're only playing.

neris

spurious wrote: »

Someone's little darling threw one into traffic just before you go south over the Samuel Beckett yesterday evening. I honestly thought it was a bomb, the noise of it. This wasn't just a banger, it was some really loud one. Cue women with prams doing a sudden sprint along the path and wobbling cyclists. Throw a lorry into the mix and it could have been really serious.

God bless those little chaps, sure they're only playing.

Must be too cold for the sheriff st natives to be jumping into the canal this time of year

ElmoLaw

who is supplying them - thats what i want to know - its been going on for weeks- driving me nuts how are they getting away with this

boombang

Kitty Holland had an article about the issue in the Irish Times and people are complaining on Twitter saying the headline unfairly describes this as a problem in working class areas.



I'm not saying this doesn't happen in wealthy parts of Dublin, but you're deluded if you think this isn't particularly a thing in working class neighbourhoods.

em_cat

Gavin shels wrote: »

Loads going off in D8 in the past few weeks.

We’ve been getting proper shows the last few nights, one of our dogs is petrified of 'em, vets have a rush order of Sileo.

DellyBelly

Same here in Dublin 8 for the last few weeks. The council estate types been at it constantly. Don't know how they afford the things...

Alicano

We've been enjoying the fireworks and banger festival here in East Wall since July! Do we win a prize?
It's all the same 'uniformed' grey tracksuit toe rags.. kids as young as 10 at it.
Come on down to Fairview park any Tues or Thurs evening when it is packed with all sorts of sports and fitness going on..dog walkers.. families strolling..cyclists etc.
The scrotes set off the bangers right at the playground. Imagine!!
Then they like to set the rockets off into the middle of GAA under age games and soccer games. When finished there, it's over to the DART maintenance garage part to launch a few in there.
I've seen all the above on many occasions with my own eyes.
The future is bright for Dublin's NE Inner City.. :rolleyes:

whisky_galore

De kids, god luv dem, dey got no faciliteeeeees.

Strumms

I wonder what this Halloween will be like for the Gardai and in turn every normal, caring and law abiding community minded person... these scrotes having extra cash, extra time for destruction and antisocial scheananigans....

Strumms

Strumms wrote: »

I wonder what this Halloween will be like for the Gardai and in turn every normal, caring and law abiding community minded person... these scrotes having extra cash, extra time for destruction and antisocial scheananigans....

For the last month or so around my area I've seen little scumba... little kids I mean, dragging around pallets and tyres.


Little to do and no consequences.

imme

Alicano wrote: »

We've been enjoying the fireworks and banger festival here in East Wall since July! Do we win a prize?
It's all the same 'uniformed' grey tracksuit toe rags.. kids as young as 10 at it.
Come on down to Fairview park any Tues or Thurs evening when it is packed with all sorts of sports and fitness going on..dog walkers.. families strolling..cyclists etc.
The scrotes set off the bangers right at the playground. Imagine!!
Then they like to set the rockets off into the middle of GAA under age games and soccer games. When finished there, it's over to the DART maintenance garage part to launch a few in there.
I've seen all the above on many occasions with my own eyes.
The future is bright for Dublin's NE Inner City.. :rolleyes:

Irish society accepts this type of behaviour, no one else to blame.

imme

imme wrote: »

Irish society accepts this type of behaviour, no one else to blame.

Irish society doesn't accept it, though. Irish society is aware, however, that it's every man for themselves. The Gardai have no interest, the judges have no interest, the politicians have no interest, and if your windows get put in in the middle of the night, your neighbours won't be seen giving you a shoulder to cry on.

Policing, as seems to regularly be the case, is the issue.


That said, these things should be illegal up north, anyway. Most of them sold up there are most likely thrown at the PSNI anyway, so i've no idea why they are legal there. Banning them there would help eliminate them down here, too.

imme

Deleted User wrote: »

Irish society doesn't accept it, though. Irish society is aware, however, that it's every man for themselves. The Gardai have no interest, the judges have no interest, the politicians have no interest, and if your windows get put in in the middle of the night, your neighbours won't be seen giving you a shoulder to cry on.

Policing, as seems to regularly be the case, is the issue.


That said, these things should be illegal up north, anyway. Most of them sold up there are most likely thrown at the PSNI anyway, so i've no idea why they are legal there. Banning them there would help eliminate them down here, too.

I don't think the one are 'used' down south don't come from NI.
I think they come in from abroad.

Restrictions have been put in place in NI in recent years following what you describe, fireworks being used as missiles, to attack police.

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fireworks

I think there are people in society, down south, who don't accept this, why would you.

But overall it continues to happen, therefore society accepts it.

imme

imme wrote: »

I don't think the one are 'used' down south don't come from NI.

Ah, they definitely are. I live in Louth and cross the border regularly on my way to Monaghan and further afield. Big containers with huge 'fireworks on sale' signs and truck trailers parked with directions, all placed comically close to the border.


There's no difficulty whatsoever in getting them. Not that I buy them myself, of course, but they're really shoved in your face when you're driving through border towns.

Pkiernan

Welfare progeny at its finest

Fuascailteoir

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Ah, they definitely are. I live in Louth and cross the border regularly on my way to Monaghan and further afield. Big containers with huge 'fireworks on sale' signs and truck trailers parked with directions, all placed comically close to the border.


There's no difficulty whatsoever in getting them. Not that I buy them myself, of course, but they're really shoved in your face when you're driving through border towns.

Definitely, from east down to south fermanagh a ton of crossings have shipping containers packed full of fireworks placed almost on the border. Must be good money in them as always have been expensive . Don't know what the price is when they hit the streets in dublin

JohnnyFlash

St Anne's Park tonight. Clontarf side. The fireworks don't seem to do anything this year only sound really loud. The cats are terrified.

According to a friend of mine, the fireworks are being used for the purposes of finding dogs that are outside.



Firework -> Dog barking -> Dog found -> Dog kidnapped -> ??? -> profit.

Atlantic Dawn

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According to a friend of mine, the fireworks are being used for the purposes of finding dogs that are outside.



Firework -> Dog barking -> Dog found -> Dog kidnapped -> ??? -> profit.

Sounds like an oul wives tale so to speak. How could you tell what was a good dog to rob and what was worthless.

endacl

Deleted User wrote: »

According to a friend of mine, the fireworks are being used for the purposes of finding dogs that are outside.



Firework -> Dog barking -> Dog found -> Dog kidnapped -> ??? -> profit.

That's the facebookpanickiest thing I've read in ages.

Charlie19

[Deleted User] wrote: »

According to a friend of mine, the fireworks are being used for the purposes of finding dogs that are outside.



Firework -> Dog barking -> Dog found -> Dog kidnapped -> ??? -> profit.

It doesn't really add up though...

Fireworks in council estates and dog barks how do you distinguish what house in the terrace the barks are coming from.

I call shenanigans on that theory.

Charlie19

Charlie19 wrote: »

It doesn't really add up though...

Fireworks in council estates and dog barks how do you distinguish what house in the terrace the barks are coming from.

I call shenanigans on that theory.

Im just saying what I heard tonight.



Facebook conspiracy theory / old wives tale / whatever.



Maybe / possibly / probably / I dunno


I'm just relaying what someone told me.

bobbyy gee

It's going to get worse until they run out in Halloween

Birneybau

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Im just saying what I heard tonight.



Facebook conspiracy theory / old wives tale / whatever.



Maybe / possibly / probably / I dunno


I'm just relaying what someone told me.

Why though?

Mr.Nice Guy

This has been the worst year for it that I can remember. To have them going off as early as August and in broad daylight is an absolute joke.

Seems likely they were brought from north of the border as they aren't illegal up there. I'd say there were a good few left over from events that were cancelled due to the pandemic. Eleventh Night celebrations and whatnot.

Atlantic Dawn

bobbyy gee wrote: »

It's going to get worse until they run out in Halloween

Certainly will.


I wonder with Covid will they make Trick Or Treat a crime?