Brawl breaks out at Dublin Airport

JP Liz V1

I wouldn't like to be seeing that with my family, disgraceful

Terrontress

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119113136#Comment_119113136

A gun would do no good. A taser, though, would send 50,000 volts into them. It would drop them to the ground in a puddle of their own piss

You would want more than one guard though as once you fire it into one person, I don’t think it can be used again. The other knacks might attack you then.

You’d need one guard to taser the lad jumping on someone’s head. Then another who has a taser drawn and threatens to use it on anyone who threatens either of them.

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

Wow only in Ireland!

Let the ordinary law abiding suffer just to not discriminate against these people.

The solution here now will be we will all suffer bar restrictions and pay for extra security so these boys can jet off un harmed.

lawred2

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

It's brilliant seeing so many of them arrive on the scene after the fact. A whole squad of them with nothing to do.

sligeach

The Six One news played a heavily pixelated 15 second clip of the brawl. All you can see are feet. Fergal O'Brien describes the head stomping as "one man was knocked to the ground and jumped on". 🙄 Right! Only 1 arrest. Surely there has to be more forthcoming. Has to be the head stamper arrested. He's been charged and released to appear in Swords district court on 14th June. He has no business being allowed out on the streets. A dirty rotten thug, who probably would have crushed that man's skull had he not been pulled away.

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119111487#Comment_119111487

They'll have been watching on CCTV for everything to disperse to then "arrive on the scene"

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119111889#Comment_119111889

Non event?

tayto lover

I’m sure Ryanair will bar the group from flying with them again and the DAA will bar them from the airport. Ryanair will have all their details.

brokenangel

If the Gardai came into the airport, done anything to these scumbags I am sure the internet would be full of videos today of "heavy" handed Gardai and the poor lads just wanted to have a pint etc etc etc

People complaining about them are a laugh, the same people complain every time the Gardai try to implement the law.

tayto lover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119113656#Comment_119113656

Silly statement. Those guards had to be summoned from nearby stations and other work. Someone somewhere else had then to wait even longer to have their call or emergency answered. They were not airport police.

Juran

If the Irish Gardaí checked all male passports boarding the plane to find the boys in question, how comes the British police still had to locate the 2 boys once the plane landed in the UK ? Irish cops missed them ?

At least UK police and UK justice system will treat them like every other person who are a threat to aviation. Full letter of the law. Meanwhile the boys the gardaí arrested or questioned in Dublin will be let off with a 'don't be doing that again'.

I echo what people have already said in this forum ... thanks Enda Kenny. You ruined the Irish legal system protecting these scum ... I won't insult rats or any animal on this planet by using their name to describe them.

buried

Even the worst scumbag in any other country wouldn't dare to try anything like this at their own international airports, because they know full well that the authorities from that society would literally turn them upside down and inside out in the space of 20 seconds. Meanwhile, the trash in this country do not give a single solitary f**k where they carry out these acts of extreme violence, funerals, weddings, now in supposedly high security zones such as airports. They do not care because they have been handed everything to them on a plate and at the same time consistently given the two fingers to wider society as a whole for well over a half a century. The last couple of years we have numerous NGO's and politicians proclaiming this way of life is almost sanctified and needs to be protected. Well here is the result of that blind eye gifting and state sanctioned protection, a legion of out and out sociopaths, with worse incoming.

Roxxers

have pavee point condemned this ? these sc umbags all on the dole bleeding us dry for years

brokenangel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119113808#Comment_119113808

31k traveller in Ireland, I think you will find it's not the traveller "bleeding us dry for years"

Terrontress

Enda Kenny recognised travellers as an ethnicity. No matter what your ethnicity is, you can’t get away with that kind of behaviour.

Roxxers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119113821#Comment_119113821

yes sorry should have said robbing or scamming us dry

mikethecop

Every one of these people should be identified , they had to have passports to get to that part of the airport right and are on cctv ?

they should be a min of one year for the least involved person and never allowed in any irish airport again ,

we have tolerated this kind of semi feral scum for far to long

remove them from society for the protection of the rest of us

if they cant act like humans treat them accordingly

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119113453#Comment_119113453

I doubt it takes much drink at all for heads like this to kick off

brokenangel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119113883#Comment_119113883

Yes that’s more correct

JP Liz V1

Did Enda Kenny make it that "travellers" cannot be prosecuted, face punishment etc.,

Also in regard to airport bars, do they serve 24 hours?

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119113690#Comment_119113690

Exactly!!! Big issue for our law enforcement today is the lack of support from all areas of society. Even politicians being cute hoors when picking and choosing how they support.

billyhead

These scum bags are no use in society. Probably claiming the dole and robbing old people by claiming to fix there roofs. They should be shipped off to the middle of the Atlantic in a boat and the boat sunked.

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119113943#Comment_119113943

You mean sunked?

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119113642#Comment_119113642

I as I said, one guy can’t stop what happened

brokenangel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119113924#Comment_119113924

The airport isn’t 24 hours so the bars certainly are not

have a read here, PBP and SF seems to be the spokesperson for the traveller

When a group of criminals are around you can be sure SF are not far away

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-03-01/37/

Still stihl waters 3

I'm glad in a way that bleeding hearts who stand up for these parasites on social media can have a good look at the real traveller in action condoned by the wider traveller community as its a part of their culture, calling them rats is an insult to rats as rats are a source of food to some animals therefore making them good for something, a claim that will never be made a against a traveller

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119114013#Comment_119114013

These cheerleaders are a lot more dangerous than the sections of society they target.

Patches oHoulihan

Grey tracksuit clad scum bags are not just a Dublin phenomenon

They are EVERYWHERE

BettyBoo2011

Found this very disturbing and shocking to watch.. horrible for any onlookers and in particular young kids to witness.

Did anyone read how the man who was brought to Beaumont is?

Viscount Aggro

Questions...

Why is only ONE person arrested. I see several people involved in the fight.

Where does it say in news reports, they are travellers. Theres a lot of assumptions here.

MakersMark

Apparently the fight started because Ryanair couldn't accommodate a passengers horse on the flight.

buried

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119114013#Comment_119114013

The likes of PBP and SF are completely irrelevant. No doubt they don't give a $hit about wider society just like any other political racket, but They have not been in power while this disgraceful and cowardly blind eye act has been enabled towards this section of society for the last 50 years. They are not in power today. We need the authorities in power today to do something about this now, they should have done it over 20 years ago but have continuously ignored and placated the problem to such a level where members of this society obviously now believe they can literally carry out in a split second violent actions in a place such as an international airport that terrorist cells would have to spend years planning. That's no joke, that what this incident showcases. These people literally do not give a f**k. And those in power the last 50 years have enabled them to not give it.

brokenangel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119114136#Comment_119114136

The biggest (so to speak)person behind the ethnic minority rubbish was our little president, who seemingly would welcome them no problem down to his own house he said on live TV…..

people actually beloved that lie along with the rest

normanoffside

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119114069#Comment_119114069

It was a standard Traveller fight, with 2 'fair play' men separating the lads when they got into a wrestle and encouraging then to stand up and box. But the fair play men didn't do their job when the third party came in from the side with a sucker punch and follow up kicks to the head cos his man was losing. That's probably cos it wasn't organised properly and a bit spontaneous (needed a few call out videos and a few bets first)

The weird thing is that the whole thing was acted out in an international airport in exactly the same way if it was organised down in Big Joe Joyce's farm in Moate. The lads have absolutely no embarrassment about it.

Still stihl waters 3

Ro

Field east

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https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119114115#Comment_119114115

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119110608#Comment_119110608

you are wrong. Yes it could but not with the horse box,!

Still stihl waters 3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119114069#Comment_119114069

Would anyone care how he is, scum bag deserve all they get along with the shower of cnuts that were with him

Potential-Monke

I could understand airport police being reluctant here. They're just civillians in a role and not Gardai. They have the power of arrest the same as every single person in this country. But most people don't know what's needed to use that (the crime being witnessed must have a potential prison term of 5 years or more). They then perform a citizens arrest and detain until handover to AGS. But I can understand the reluctance. Aside from people who really want to make it an issue, we know they're travellers. As described above, the fight was performed exactly like every other traveller fight. 2 lads, surrounded by onlookers who separate the hugging and pick them up if knocked down. Man to man on your feet, that's how they fight. Or used to.

So it wasn't just the 2 fighting, they'd have god knows how many others getting involved. I've been in situations where you get a call to a halting site because of a massive fight, you get there, see the amount of travellers and knowing full well if you went in you'd get hammered. You've to wait for backup. Safety in numbers. No job is worth a hammering. Until it's safe to intervene, you observe and take note to be used in evidence. That's just normal process no matter which country you're a cop in. The heroes end up getting killed or seriously injured. Yes, it's their job to enforce the law, not their job to knowingly put yourself in harms way. This isn't 'Merica.

But I'm sure there's lots on here who think the Garda on €45k should put his safety on the line to protect travellers from themselves, regardless of backup. I can tell a lot of ye wouldn't be great at planning security... Any airport police, or even a permanent Garda presence (outside of the small station with mainly admin duties, mostly immigration), if he had intervened with a heavy hand, which is what would be required here, let's be honest, would be ripped asunder by the bleeding hearts and anti-Garda brigade. Don't know how they still do it tbh. I ran, and I'll never look back. People suck.

Terrontress

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119114250#Comment_119114250

You seem a bit knowledgeable about the fights amongst travellers.

As you allude to, there is a bit of a structure and rules about them.

Given that the lad who jumped on the head of the other boy has obviously broken those rules, is it likely he could face punishment from the community at large?

goose2005

"Independent.ie understands that the group involved included relatives living in the UK who had travelled to Co Meath for a funeral.

They were due to fly back from Dublin Airport when their flight was delayed.

A source said: "There was a lot of alcohol drunk which was made worse with the delay and the fight initially broke out between two men over a historic dispute. "

I love all the euphemisms that they have to use to avoid saying they were T's. A historic dispute, were they arguing over the treaty of Versailles?

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119114616#Comment_119114616

A historic dispute, were they arguing over the treaty of Versailles?

No. Just the usual. One fella said Oasis were better than Blur and they other fella disagreed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZvZ_wu3c6Y

hotmail.com

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119114616#Comment_119114616

Why can't they just say they're Travellers? They want to be called Travellers.

Fuascailteoir

This one wasn't a fight as such. Was quite a complex mating dance in which the larger one was trying to attract the romantic affection of the smaller male

Dublin Airports New Head of Security 😀

Strumms

Look, if it was Killybegs United that got involved in the same behaviours, they’d be on the news, all over social media, arrests would have been made, banned from the airport, airline…won’t happen here of course…

absolutely appalling that at an airport… one of the highest security sensitive public buildings in the country … that kicks off and the response from law enforcement is so inefficient and ineffective .

Taliban could be watching that… quite aware that 10 of them they could push / fight their way airside, in 1 minute…. To a parked up aircraft in another 3 or 4….that has 12 tonnes of fuel and detonate an IED or just blow fûck out of a part of the duty free…….either way create carnage, create lots of carnage along the way.

why don’t the DAA just every year, give the government X millions from their budget to police the airport… be an additional xx Gardai but just tax the DAA for it…

I’m reading there are around 300 airport police in Ireland over all the airports …if the state hire 300 or so extra Gardai… the DAA make a contribution… which they can afford by my reckoning..

I'd have to ask the point of the airport police then really if they are so powerless considering the importance of the airport and the number of people through it.

I was in Schipol a few weeks ago watching the marchaussee strolling round with long guns.

Some lad pulled a knife on them in Eindhoven a few years ago and they shot him on the spot. LOL

Hego Damask

To the apologizers asking "how we know they are travelers" ?

https://youtu.be/6UIX2nu_zH8

Listen to the accents, and look at the bloody guys refereeing it for ffs!!

StevenToast

RTE are terrified of covering this....small story on the website....

This is borderline terrorism....imagine this carry on in any other major European Airport.....swift justice would have been handed out that would make Padraig Nally blush.....

Sorolla

I am absolutely shocked at the tone of the majority of these posts.

we, as a society, have dismally failed these young men and robbed them of their perspective of a bright prosperous future.

i, myself, come from rural Ireland and day in day out I hear of the most wanton discrimination against these fine folk - hotels blatantly refusing to host weddings, christening parties, funeral parties.

Pubs boarding up their windows and closing their doors whenever there is a funeral of their loved ones in the town.

When I was a young lad we lived to see the tinker call to the door - we considered it good luck.

He would fix anything broken and would gladly take a bucket of water for the horse - they were lovely people back then and they are lovely people today.

We, as a society must stand up and treat these people with respect and tolerate their customs because at the end of the day there is a bit of a tinker in each and every one of us Irish people

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119114096#Comment_119114096

Lol.