Gas Pipe Explosion near IFSC

dublinman1990

Some pictures from the Dublin subreddit on Reddit are showing a gas pipe explosion taking place near the IFSC in Dublin this evening.

There are no Luas services operating between Busaras & The Point this evening. All Luas Red Line Trams are running between Saggart/Tallaght & Connolly.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0819/1529204-dublin-fire/

I hope there is no injuries reported.

Thelonious Monk

Watching it now was out for a jog. That's the luas offline for a couple of years anyway. Big blue flames now. Think I'll keep running looks dodge.

Strumms

saw some live footage on tiktok, one person saying a bridge the Luas uses is buckling due to the extreme heat…

Fortunately it looks like nobody was hurt and it’s just the infrastructure…..

Not exactly what the city needed ffs.

Frank Bullitt

Something like that happened here in Vancouver, crazy stuff.

Hopefully no one was injured, that is the main thing.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123737113#Comment_123737113

Yeah this being ireland it will take years for the luas to be going to point again

Strumms

it will, about 2 hours after the alarm was raised and still quite intense flames can be seen on the tiktok live there

The cause will be interesting.

dublinman1990

There is some unverified information posted on the r/Ireland subreddit on Reddit saying that the fire was started by someone (either a single person or a gang of people) who had tried to set some homeless people's tents alight underneath the bridge. Once the homeless tents under the bridge caught fire; the flames from them had then spread over to the gas pipeline which then resulted in it's explosion underneath the bridge just before 6pm this evening. If that information coming from reddit is true; that is truly terrifying stuff to read.

I had no idea that there was homeless people living there underneath the bridge. I would hate to think what would have happened to them if someone came down to their accomodation and eventually lit a match on their tents when then resulted in the explosion. If TII, Transdev, DFB & the Gardai are there at the scene right now and see that stuff later on after the fire has fully extinguished. What do you think could happen next; would there be an Arson & attempted murder charge from the Gardai once the fire has fully gone out?

The electricity in that part of Dublin City Centre has also been switched off for a number of hours since the explosion happened since 6pm. I'd suspect a large number of homes & businesses in the area are going to be without power for the remainder of the night & into the next morning.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123737632#Comment_123737632

If that's true it's extremely grim. Why would anyone burn homeless people's tents?

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123737632#Comment_123737632

This is being pushed by far-right accounts on Twitter; and as such should be treated as lies until otherwise proven to be true; as 99.9% of the stuff that originates from them is lies.

Although ironically, if it was someone burning homeless peoples tents, they'd likely have been far right to begin with - but its still not likely the cause.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123737724#Comment_123737724

Yeah it would have been people burning fordiners tents surely. Given they've already attacked asylum seekers in tents and slashed them up with knives.

10-10-20

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123737113#Comment_123737113

Yeah, that bridge is toast - pardon the pun. They'll be doing well to get it back running by Christmas.

dublinman1990

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123737724#Comment_123737724

Yep. I understand that. I know the one narrative that I being posted here on boards is not accurate yet.

That information posted on Reddit apparently came from a security guard who works either in an office block or from another business in that part of Dublin. Although I would say how the far right operate online or in the real world these days; they could spread out that information around to other people in their groupings online like wildfire & it could be treated as gospel very easily.

We; on the other hand; just have to be very careful of what is known to be truth & what is known to be lies when discussing this incident. I don't want to be a lackey for the far right in spreading misinformation online. I want to be factual as possible when the time is right.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123737814#Comment_123737814

i just saw a video of it that showed clothes hanging on some kind of line underneath, so yeah, looks like there were people living there.

i muted it as i think it's that annoying heroin addict bloke making the video

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNi-sWhNcJK/?igsh=YmIza3RjYThhd2I2

skimpydoo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123737632#Comment_123737632

My power was off but was back on just 2 hours after it went down. Most of Pearse St had no power. A pic I took of the fire can be seen below.

Mr. CooL ICE

I work in the IFSC and walk that bridge regularly. From memory , I can't see how tents could be set up underneath it? I thought it was the next one up (Spencer Dock) and could see how tents could be set up there, but not this one.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123738140#Comment_123738140

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNi-sWhNcJK/?igsh=YmIza3RjYThhd2I2

Apologies for the source of this video but you'll see how it's possible to camp there if you watch this

alias no.9

A gas pipe should not be susceptible to an adjacent event like burning of a tent. It's much more probably the result of a gas leak.

techman1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123738357#Comment_123738357

Exactly a small fire from a tent would not ignite gas inside a pipe unless there was a gas leak, those pipes are substantial and are designed to withstand stuff like that

circadian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123737120#Comment_123737120

Was that the train that went on fire in New West?

magicbastarder

while i share the scepticism that a small fire should not ignite a gas main, that they're much more robust than that - a gas main should not ignite at all. something went wrong!

techman1

It was obviously leaking, did someone interfere with it, possibly loosening bolts and how did gas networks not detect that a leak was occurring?

Jizique

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123738402#Comment_123738402

There was a large gas explosion in Donegal a few years ago and we still haven't heard much about that - there is a reason why proper countries have their gas pipes buried underground, can't believe we just run pipes out in the open like this

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123738416#Comment_123738416

Gas pipes running across bridges is normal everywhere.

There's no natural gas in Donegal, Creeslough would have been tank gas.

10-10-20

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123738402#Comment_123738402

In my opinion, the green flame from the gas was a clue. There was a copper source under there, either an electrical cable or copper piping. I'd suspect that the electrical cable went up first, then caused the hole in the gas pipe.

Hotblack Desiato

Well so far we've learned that the Luas will be out for 2 years, and that Ireland isn't a proper country🙄

Why do people post crap like this? The constant barrage of negativity based on complete bollocks

When a gas pipe needs to get across a gap from one side to the other, where the fcuk else is it supposed to go if not under a bridge?

10-10-20

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123738528#Comment_123738528

Two years 🤣

Come back to me on that around Monday of next week.

Noworries!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123738528#Comment_123738528

Somehow a gas fire in Dublin, has led to something about the far right, spreading rumours about the far right. Discussions about the network being interfered with, presumably by the far right. And someone assuming that it was the far right out to get foreigners, albeit deliberately misspelling it for some reason. I haven't heard of any injuries which we should be grateful for, and hopefully it will turn out to be just a freak accident. I concur with some of the more balanced posters that gas lines are designed to be robust, be interesting to see what did actually happen!

loyatemu

pics on the Luas twitter showing the bridge, it doesn't look too bad. Hopefully it's not structurally damaged, and the Luas can get back running in weeks rather than months.

magicbastarder

gas fuel can't melt steel beams.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123738750#Comment_123738750

What about a hypothetical tent though?

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123738820#Comment_123738820

it's not hypothetical, there seemed to be some kind of camp underneath