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Armed Support Units for "major" Irish cities

Sosurface

They dont even care if they strike here. Despite ISIS being known to be active in Waterford.

http://www.thejournal.ie/armed-support-units-irish-cities-terror-watch-3427293-Jun2017/

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greenspurs

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

If I visit Donegal for a few days, am I not a tourist?
Got a link to that publication?

OVERSEAS visitor stats....
Failte Ireland website......

Johnboy1951

greenspurs wrote: »

Or less visitors than Kilkenny ..............
Overseas visitors by county (2015)
Dublin: 4,938,000

Cork: 1,449,000

Galway: 1,354,000

Kerry: 1,026,000

Clare: 597,000

Limerick: 537,000

Mayo: 302,000

Donegal: 289,000

Kilkenny: 267,000

Waterford: 263,000

If I visit Donegal for a few days, am I not a tourist?
Got a link to that publication?

wakka12

What do you mean by ISIS are active in waterford? Are you referring to the couple who were arrested in waterford? They are just two people associated with terrorism who happened to be living in waterford, I dont think there was any larger network which they were part of which was specifically targeting waterford

greenspurs

Deiseen wrote: »

Waterford has over double the population and gets just as many tourists as Kilkenny.

Kilkenny looks rammed with tourists because the place is tiny.

Or less visitors than Kilkenny ..............
Overseas visitors by county (2015)

Dublin: 4,938,000
Cork: 1,449,000
Galway: 1,354,000
Kerry: 1,026,000
Clare: 597,000
Limerick: 537,000
Mayo: 302,000
Donegal: 289,000
Kilkenny: 267,000
Waterford: 263,000

alta stare

I dont believe any extremist is stupid enough to attack anywhere in Ireland. Not because we have them all under 24hr surveillance, not because we arent a big enough target but i believe they know how easy it is for them to pretty much hide here. They have a back door to the UK, the can come and go as they please within reason. Any person with any level of intelligence who is engaged in terrorist activity will see this.

Perhaps a lone wolf attack may happen but usually that is done by someone who is mentally unstable or whos head has been turned due to many factors which are mostly far from religous or idealogical beliefs. To be fair if i suddendly said **** it im angry at the world i could plan and carry out an attack which has nothing to do with ISIS or the likes but them ****ers would claim it anyway.

This argument about who between Kilkenny or Waterford being a target is pretty dumb to be honest.

Deiseen

road_high wrote: »

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I doubt Waterford is anywhere on ISIS's target list. They would aim for busy places like a major city, football match, concert etc and Waterford has none of these, very rare there is a high concentration of people in one place in Waterford.

I'd think tramore beach if anywhere was a risk.

Waterford has over double the population and gets just as many tourists as Kilkenny.

Kilkenny looks rammed with tourists because the place is tiny.

road_high

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I doubt Waterford is anywhere on ISIS's target list. They would aim for busy places like a major city, football match, concert etc and Waterford has none of these, very rare there is a high concentration of people in one place in Waterford.

I'd think tramore beach if anywhere was a risk.

road_high

Sosurface wrote: »

There are 5 "cities" named. One of them is not a major Irish city. One not named is. Hope this helps.

Waterford isn't a major city...53000 people live there- it's not major, nor are limerick or Galway tbh

road_high

BBM77 wrote: »

There has been a ASU based in Waterford for years. I’d say this is some dozy Dud that could not tell the difference between Waterford And Kilkenny. Why would you even put an ASU in Kilkenny being that it has such a small population.

Yea because the metropolis of Waterford is just so much more important with its barely double population!
Kilkenny is more of a terror threat due to the large congregations of crowds of all difference nationalities, but still low. They'll go for dublin if they want to do anything here

Deiseen

StringerBell wrote: »

What the met did was superb, 8 minutes from first 911 call to 3 dead scumbags is pretty damn impressive. Lets just hope we don't find out what the actual response time would be in Dublin, let alone anywhere else!

No talk of the IRA lads found with 6kg of TNT...

StringerBell

What the met did was superb, 8 minutes from first 911 call to 3 dead scumbags is pretty damn impressive. Lets just hope we don't find out what the actual response time would be in Dublin, let alone anywhere else!

Wanderer78

eeguy wrote: »

There's not a chance the ARU have an 8 minute response time in Dublin.

they done 'a paper exercise'!:eek:

eeguy

There's not a chance the ARU have an 8 minute response time in Dublin.

MentalMario

AzcuzCoz wrote: »

Edit: they're probably after their crystal.

Hopefully they get more out of it than the poor workers did.

Christy Browne

I've seen the armed response unit all over the city the past few weeks, multiple times.

The guards seems to have a really high presence lately, just today I saw two squad cars and the armed response vehicle out patrolling.

Mountainsandh

deisemum wrote: »

Jihad Jane and the black flag were in hiding in Waterford a while back. Jihad Jane was in Viewmount, the mosque has been raided because of suspected terrorism links as have a number of places in the city centre.

There was a security expert interviewed on Newstalk a while back and he said Waterford and Wexford were hot spots for fundamentalists.

Deleted User wrote: »

I doubt Waterford is anywhere on ISIS's target list. They would aim for busy places like a major city, football match, concert etc and Waterford has none of these, very rare there is a high concentration of people in one place in Waterford.

Winterval, Spraoi, ...

Anyway, don't think they'd be worried about attacks so much as just operation command centers sort of thing anyway. Training/planning/communication.

Oh, and coincidentally, Saudi investors want to invest right here, in Waterford ?
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/commercial-property/saudi-mall-operator-plans-shopping-centre-in-waterford-1.3017993

Reading into it a bit more, this guy was only hired in May 16, and in February 2017 this is what he said about expansion in a pretty comprehensive article :

Al Jasser says Arabian Centres has no plans to expand outside the kingdom, insisting that Saudi Arabia â€” with a population of at least 30 million people â€” is a big enough country to fulfil its growth expansion plans. The companyâ€™s malls are concentrated in Dammam, Riyadh and Jeddah, with new additions in Makkah and Madinah (both top religious tourism destinations) and Qassim.

I think it's a bit odd.

But hey, there could be nothing in it, maybe he just changed his mind on expansion ...

mooseknunkle

Deiseen wrote: »

This armed response unit is different from the emergency response unit so someone is getting their wires crossed

Yeah they are two different units wasn't the ARU set up last year to deal with the feud in Dublin and the ERU was always based in Waterford,or is it the other way around

Max Powers

TheQuietFella wrote: »

Top Secret!!!

Starring Val Kilmer.

TheQuietFella

StringerBell wrote: »

As per John Hearne on fb, the unit is already based here which is why Waterford was not listed.

Top Secret!!!

Deiseen

StringerBell wrote: »

Deiseen wrote: »

You would assume this would have been reported in the article then no? And surely they already had them in Dublin and Cork, so why were they mentioned?

Dunno, all I can tell you is he commented that he rang them to query it and that was his response.

This armed response unit is different from the emergency response unit so someone is getting their wires crossed

StringerBell

Deiseen wrote: »

You would assume this would have been reported in the article then no? And surely they already had them in Dublin and Cork, so why were they mentioned?

Dunno, all I can tell you is he commented that he rang them to query it and that was his response.

Johnboy1951

Get over it .... Waterford does not exist except in your collective imagination, hence no mention in the article!

Deiseen

StringerBell wrote: »

As per John Hearne on fb, the unit is already based here which is why Waterford was not listed.

You would assume this would have been reported in the article then no? And surely they already had them in Dublin and Cork, so why were they mentioned?

StringerBell

As per John Hearne on fb, the unit is already based here which is why Waterford was not listed.

Harry Palmr

Well I'm just glad it's Kilkenny ISIS are interested in

Anyway that article is from the Churnel, which has journalism of infant school level.

[Deleted User]

I doubt Waterford is anywhere on ISIS's target list. They would aim for busy places like a major city, football match, concert etc and Waterford has none of these, very rare there is a high concentration of people in one place in Waterford.

deisemum

Jihad Jane and the black flag were in hiding in Waterford a while back. Jihad Jane was in Viewmount, the mosque has been raided because of suspected terrorism links as have a number of places in the city centre.

There was a security expert interviewed on Newstalk a while back and he said Waterford and Wexford were hot spots for fundamentalists.

EagererBeaver

Sosurface wrote: »

There are 5 "cities" named. One of them is not a major Irish city. One not named is. Hope this helps.

No, it doesn't help in the slightest. You asked how active Isis are in major cities. What the **** does naming the cities have to do with anything?

Do you even know what you're responding to?

maizes

word on the grapevine is the hotspots are waterford, limerick and that place in dublin,

also some eyes are on a town in mayo

doen't prove anything

irishgrover

Sosurface wrote:

They dont even care if they strike here. Despite ISIS being known to be active in Waterford.

There were a lot more people allegedly raising money for terrorists to murder Brits 20 years ago than now. Having arseholes raising money for terrorists is thankfully a lot different from active terrorist cells....