Brawl breaks out at Dublin Airport

downtheroad

Lifetime ban from any Irish airport for the offenders, passports flagged to be refused entry ever again, and publicise the punishment so that this type of nonsense doesn't happen again.

And if any clown from Pavee Point moans about their rights tell them 99.9% of citizens have the right to travel through our airports without being subjected to this behaviour.

There is no punishment in this country. Look at your one Catriona Carey, caught driving twice with no valid licence and gets a suspended sentence. Our courts basically tell people there is no repercussions for any illegal behaviour in this country.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112295#Comment_119112295

The Guardia civil are out on the street battering 7 shades of shite out of anyone who doesn't adhere or comply with their direction and they are well protected in doing so. I could only imagine the response if it happened in Madrid. Probably an airport lockdown and media blackout territory. Albeit, Spain doesn't have such feral ethnic countrymen.

The Guards are far too nicey nicey for the most part.

Wheety

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112330#Comment_119112330

As you say, the Guardia Civil are protected. The Garda would be disciplined if they're even a little bit heavy handed.

One eyed Jack

What the hell is any tourist going to think coming into the country and seeing that carry on?

“Doris I’m not sure if we’re in Ireland, or still in Las Vegas!”

Tourists expect that sort of carry on in Ireland, they have the Internet in other countries too y’know! 😂

https://youtu.be/eirq4laOhcU

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119111554#Comment_119111554

Yes and they were nowhere to be seen. Presumably way too busy hassling drivers picking up relatives in the drop-off area.

Summer2020

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112344#Comment_119112344

I can imagine the outcry now if guards had gotten there in time and started battoning the offenders.

There'd be calls for suspensions and sacking of the guards in question from the media.The commissioner and minister for justice would refuse to publicly back the guards in question for fear of offending minorities.

Pathetic country we live in in many regards.

walshb

I hope the airline that these thugs were due to fly on was notified and they were refused entry

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112082#Comment_119112082

You might enlighten me how someone being held to the ground and getting their head stamped on is not an issue of public safety?

hamburgham

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119111983#Comment_119111983

Are the Gardai still refusing to go back to their pre COVID shift pattern? A shift pattern which suits them but takes no account of crime ‘peak times’.

Foxhound38

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112309#Comment_119112309

Don't pay your TV licence and you'll know all about legal reprocutions of course

Dyr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112029#Comment_119112029

My experience of Airport Police back in the day was they were fat and useless

The_Kew_Tour

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112378#Comment_119112378

I reckon some people here would actually defend their rights to get on the plane..sure it be grand. Once not on their flight though

Hooked

I'm not even arsed at being outraged - what's the point? I'm just embarrassed to call this sh^th0le home.

Cops and security too terrified to show up. "People" in question won't see any sort of jail or punishment. Shur, it's their culture...

The circle of life continues...

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112082#Comment_119112082

I don't believe that to be the case. Dublin Airport Police are a very specialised force who deal with byelaws relevant to the airport and are also trained in firefighting / public safety and first responding.

your belief is wrong.

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112458#Comment_119112458

Yep....

The more I read and think and observe and experience, the more sickening it is that I feel as regards this country and its response and attitude to scumbag behaviors.

I bet you those thugs went about their business completely unchallenged, free to do as they please, and if they feel like it, cause more trouble.

Edit: reports say some people refused permission to travel....so at least something happening

sligeach

If there was a bomb scare at the terminal, the airport police would be on the scene in a couple of minutes. This incident went on for 10 to 15 minutes. Where were they?

Not surprised in the least to see who was involved. And that romper stomper should be charged with attempted murder. Absolute dirt! All those involved should be banned from flying for life. Though one of the first comments says they usually travel by ferry. So maybe they should have their passports destroyed.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112453#Comment_119112453

The sad thing is this is true. If you're a low to middle income earner who has fallen on hard times having previously never been in trouble of the law expect the book and the bookshelf to be thrown at you to take you down a peg of society and an easy prosecution.

The repeat trouble making dregs with a made up sob story make the money for the legal system, not poor auld first and likely last offender Billy.

Terrontress

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112484#Comment_119112484

Why, then, have they opened a new airport Garda station? According to one news report:

The station's responsibilities include policing the airport, state security, emergency response to critical incidents and escort of State movements of VIP’s and valuable cargo

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112538#Comment_119112538

The airport police are responsible for policing inside the airport and they have the required powers to do so. they say as much on their website. A couple of lads having a punch up is well within their remit.

About the Airport Police Service 

The Airport Police Service (APS) is responsible for general policing and aviation security duties at the State airports in Dublin and Cork. We are also tasked with the safety of the State airports and the protection of civil aviation from unlawful acts of interference.

Our duties also include responding to emergency situations, traffic management and dealing with the preservation of good order to ensure all users of State airports can enjoy a safe environment while working or travelling through the airports. The Airport Police are "Authorised Officers" under the Airports and Aviation Acts 1936 to 2014 and as such have full policing powers within the State airports. Traffic management within the airport is the responsibility of the Airport Police. The methods of enforcement used for parking or traffic offences are clamping, towing and Fixed Payment Notices. Any vehicle parked in contravention of the Airport Bye-Laws may be subject to any of these methods of enforcement. To view the Airport bye laws click here. For general Airport Police enquiries please call: + 353 1 9444300. In case of emergency please call +353 1 9444666.

Saw this thread linked to on reddit earlier, seems the whole group were booted out of the airport afterwards and didn't fly.

https://twitter.com/sbprme/status/1529188778669137923?s=21&t=Brg859A3kqfJ4FzG-R6U4g

jmayo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112001#Comment_119112001

I can point to a few incidents where the AGS were damn slow in getting to public order incidents involved said ethnic group.

I can drive a road in under 15 minutes, but yet it took them well over 20 minutes and at night with no traffic and in a garda car.

Menawhile people were left shuddering in a pub as the windows were being smashed in.

So don't play the pass the parcel shytology.

I have seen Garda drive off rather than confront people trespassing and defecating on private property.

The usual "nothing to see here folks".

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119111364#Comment_119111364

And we will have the usual government party apologists on telling us how prepared we are for a terrorist attack.

I can even remember reason discussion here where we were lectured how prerpared Ireland was for an attack.

jmayo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112082#Comment_119112082

How very Irish.

Terrorist attack at our major airport met with following response from authorities and Airport Police.

"Sorry we only deal with byelaws relevant to the airprt and are trained in firefighting / public safety and first responding. not anti terrorism or even street brawling."

Did they even arrive to practice the old first responding on the lad that had his head stamped on or did they wait for the paramedics in the first ambulance crew.

downtheroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112453#Comment_119112453

Or import garlic labelled as apples

Spon Farmer

Where in the video does the fight begin?

All I see are guys dancing and one lad trying to undress another lad.

How do people know they are travellers?

downtheroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112330#Comment_119112330

Headline today that facial recognition software will be employed by the Gardai, and next thing there's a quango called Irish Council for Civil Liberties giving out stink about it. Instead they should be applauding the decision and saying the 1% who cause issues better get in line.

macvin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112453#Comment_119112453

comments like this are pure stupidity.

If you have a tv and don't have a licence you are given a couple of opportunities to rectify it.

Even if they take you ton court and you get a licence before hand, you will probably get off.

If you're petulant little fecker and just hate paying anything to anyone yet love to take as much as you can, the court will fine you.

If you do not pay the fine, that in itself is a separate offence and at that point you can be directed to do community service or have the fine deducted at source.

At no point do the gardai get involved, hence your point is utterly ridiculous

jmayo

Try that shyte on in any major airport in the western world and I would bet one wouldn't get more than two punches thrown before they were on the floor pi**ing in their pants looking into the barrel of a gun.

What was the other story during the last week or so about security at Dublin airport?

We are a fooking joke and sooner or later it is going to be shown up on a global scale.

Dora89

My partner was there and saw it all. It was a Ryanair flight going to Stansted that was due to take off at 1845 and was delayed until 9pm so they were all getting boozed up in the bar.

Started at 7pm, took airport police 15 mins to arrive, they took the ones fighting away but then an hour later more showed up and they started fighting again - this is what’s on the video. The airport police just stood at the bar watching and then the bar had to pull down the shutters

The Garda then arrive and arrested a couple of them but others refused to leave the terminal. This resulted in the Garda then having to check all male passports when boarding the plane to make sure none of them boarded (as some ran when they saw the Garda). When they landed there were 8 police officers waiting at the bottom of the plane and got on and asked for 2 people. They didn’t stand up so again every male getting off the plane had to present their passports until they got them.

Not the nicest experience when you’ve already been delayed over 2 hours!

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112591#Comment_119112591

'Shur twill be grand' (tm)

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112558#Comment_119112558

That guy has an incredible ability to detect who is and isn't a Traveller among 10s of thousands of people.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112647#Comment_119112647

Sounds more like it.

SuperBowserWorld

Air travel.

Driving, parking, queuing, check in, queuing, security, dumb shops, pubs, fighting, queuing, boarding, waiting, fly, burn the climate, repeat on other side. Repeat on trip back.

josip

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112029#Comment_119112029

No, the rest of the Gardai refer to them as 'Joeys'.

normanoffside

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112608#Comment_119112608

That's exactly how travellers 'fight'.

Weepsie

Surely everyone on the flight was a traveller?

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119110622#Comment_119110622

unfortunately the airport police have very little experience as regards dealing with this craic…and feck all resources with which to do it…

also there are only around 250 of them in their ranks to police the whole airport and its environs twenty four hours a day, seven days a week and three hundred and sixty five days a year… probably only 20-25 of them on duty at one time… and, they are monitoring CCTV, at security gate posts , both passenger and staff security screening… out on the apron in jeeps, patrol the perimeter fencing on the perimeter roadways…on the desk at the station…so ‘stretched’…

they don’t carry or didn’t carry any type of baton or spray…. Back when I worked there anyway which is ridiculous…

you’d wonder if it wouldn’t be a better situation to allow the Gardai to do the whole job… and the DAA pay whatever is required to the state, to police the airport…

Airport Search Unit… doing job as current

Airport Security Division ( current airport police )… gate post security, patrolling perimeter roads, monitoring cctv.

An Garda Siochana… actually ‘policing’ the airport, that when an emergency or incident such as this is called in they arrive, powers of arrest, search, detention and have batons, spray, handcuffs / restraints…

glenfieldman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112889#Comment_119112889

Ok Mr pedantic

Knackers

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112889#Comment_119112889

Didn’t get that until the other guy quoted you :p

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112872#Comment_119112872

Okay, I’m not familiar with the “culture”.

So “fighting” is a mating ritual for them. The others did flock to the pair in great excitement - no doubt aroused by the erotic display.

Murt10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119110669#Comment_119110669

But in any other normal airport the guards attending would have been armed. One armed guard on his own would have been more than capable of stopping that national embarrasement.

Obviously Airport Police and Gardai didn't want to endanger their own life by intefering in what was in effect an Irish Ethnic Minority cultural event.

These lads should be blacklisted from ever flying on any Aerlingus or Ryanair flight for life.

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119113107#Comment_119113107

Do you mean armed with a gun?

I don’t think one person on their own could have stopped that. What good would pulling a gun do?

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112558#Comment_119112558

And the Gardai painted as the baddies!!!!!!

Gusser09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119111407#Comment_119111407

Were they drinking or just behaving like they do all the time?

CreadanLady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119111131#Comment_119111131

No no, you're doing it wrong. That is only for female offenders. God love that poor girl, she must have been driven to it, I hope she gets the treatment and help she so badly deserve. xoxo hun

NSAman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119113220#Comment_119113220

No doubt it will be against a certain cohorts personal rights and be deemed "discrimination" or targeting a certain minority of the population.

If you can't get police or airport security to deal with it NOW, how the hell is facial recognition going to stop it?

New Station opened two weeks ago, yet no police on scene for 5 minutes? What are people supposed to do if there was a terrorist threat to the airport? Wait 10 minutes till the security and Guards finish their chinese takeaway?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119111294#Comment_119111294

Could have been travelling to a Sinn Féin activist conference.

brokenangel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119112608#Comment_119112608

IF you got sent the same video as I got sent, no idea if travellers but when they start stamping on the guys head and then people have to drag his  unconscious body away gave away to me it was a fight

brokenangel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119113220#Comment_119113220

DAA have facial recognition already as far as I know, it is part of checking for dodgy people entering and leaving the country

moby2101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119111050#Comment_119111050

This

it should be a T shirt , would be a huge seller all over rural Ireland

Rats

moby2101

Apologies to rats

brokenangel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119113607#Comment_119113607

They have already, they have recognition in the car parks for number plates etc.....

A public tender came out years ago for it. As far as I know the plan was that anyone came into the Dublin airport facility they would be able to track them around car park etc