Just saw this story from the I do, apologies if it's been covered before - https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/man-hospitalised-another-arrested-following-daytime-fight-in-busy-dublin-airport-terminal-41685969.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=seeding
Have to admit, I felt pretty embarassed looking at the video. What the hell is any tourist going to think coming into the country and seeing that carry on? What about any kids around? Where the hell was the airport police?
Is it the case that there are just too many people going through the airport for staff to handle?
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".
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.
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.
Or import garlic labelled as apples
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?
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.
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
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.
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!
'Shur twill be grand' (tm)
That guy has an incredible ability to detect who is and isn't a Traveller among 10s of thousands of people.
Sounds more like it.
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.
No, the rest of the Gardai refer to them as 'Joeys'.
That's exactly how travellers 'fight'.
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…
Ok Mr pedantic
Knackers
Didn’t get that until the other guy quoted you :p
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.
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.
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?
And the Gardai painted as the baddies!!!!!!
Were they drinking or just behaving like they do all the time?
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
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?
Could have been travelling to a Sinn Féin activist conference.
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
DAA have facial recognition already as far as I know, it is part of checking for dodgy people entering and leaving the country
This
it should be a T shirt , would be a huge seller all over rural Ireland
Rats
Apologies to rats
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
I wouldn't like to be seeing that with my family, disgraceful
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