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?
Good job these idiots were not there on Sunday last they may have missed their flight!
Crazy more than one was involved in a brawl - they should have been carted off and detained - drunktank at least
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
He doesn't have to die 15 years earlier than anyone
Making bad choices like drink, drugs, imprisonment, dangerous driving, fighting etc etc cause the 15 years, don't make those choices then it doesn't apply to you
What do they want at this stage? They're already spoiled by the rest of us. This is from someone at their "protest" yesterday
"“As a Traveller man, I have to die 15 years earlier than a settled man. Why is that, and who is accountable?
Who’s accountable when it comes to the mental health issues that we’re facing as a community?"
Your sicko horrible backwards community is responsible, stop trying to blame everyone else.
99.9% of people did the same
sort your own community out we have done enough for them and are sick of it at this stage
I turned the TV off as soon as I saw it starting. Christ on a bike...
Ah stop now.
I hope you showed up to support these poor misunderstood victims of oppression.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/0530/1302108-traveller-protest/.
Why would we care about crazy yee-haw 'Mericans shooting up a school? We have our own scum to worry about here, such as this fight in a public airport by our national treasures. It's not even the fight was the issue, it's the who involved and them thinking it's ok to do this wherever they want, and get away with it because they're untouchable.
Christ, people getting all worked up over a little fist fight.
Pack of bloody snowflakes.
Then some saying "what will the tourist's think" - they won't give a sh1te as it affected no-one except the skanks fighting.
If you want an example of police ineptness just look at Texas with a dozen cops outside the door of a school whilst a deranged gun toting scumbag shot children at point blank range.
Puts a little skirmish in Dublin into perspective
Court system is one part of the reason I decided to quit in the end. It is a joke. And I agree, leave if it's no longer for you. But in me leaving, it was just me, no one else affected, had to sell the house, negative equity, credit history in tatters, living with my parents at 39 now. Not everyone can do that. Some are "trapped" in the job, can't get anything outside of it that pays similar, has bills to pay, families, etc... So I can understand some who trudge on, but it wasn't for me.
And they're no different than literally every other job which has people doing the exact same, barely doing the minimum and getting away with it. My current job praised the most useless fecker on the team last week because he did 1 thing right for 1 customer. No worry given that he basically does nothing on every other case.
Lots of drink talk etc on this matter.
Being on a flight with drunken ejits is a pain.
But imagine the bar in the airport refused them.
We would have the discriminatory card played.
Cant win.
Unless we call people on what they are we will never win.
Pretending they are normal is clearly not working
Because they work in Arrivals. Duh. 🙄
Bruce is or was an employee of Revenue. Nothing to do with the DAA, it's just one of the places they work.
I realised later that was what you meant - thought it was just a nickname!
Seems appropriate anyway 😁
Firstly, welcome to Boards.ie..😉
So tell us, why didn't these "certain Customs Officers" arrest these vermin.? Were they "busy" too.?
Or simply afraid to be labelled Racists...!!!
Is the famous "Bruce Almighty" still working at the airport. Probably the most ignorant and inept person ever to set foot inside the airport doors. No wonder the DAA is a laughing stock around the World.
https://www.boards.ie/profile/Hotblack%20Desiato
I blame predictive text - for Grimstead, read Stansted!
Always irritating when a wannabe smartass tries to be witty. For the record, certain Customs Officers have power of arrest and don't need the assistance of either the gardai or Airport Security. And the loss isn't to Revenue, it's to the exchequer, i.e. you and me (assuming that you're Irish).
They had just apprehended a passenger returning from Lanzarote with an extra sleeve of cigarettes and were doing a photo-shoot & press conference highlighting the potential loss to Revenue.......
Grimstead?
I arrived by train from Waterford & got to the airport around 6PM, I didn't see any commotion & went upstairs for tea which must have been when the trouble started down below. I went though security just past 7PM & still didn't notice anything.
Went through the duty free shops area & I was upstairs in the bar opposite Burger King maybe 7.45PM or later when 30 Guards & Airport security suddenly arrived & removed 3 persons. They started giving verbal at some of the security for being English, & giving a lot of abuse, I assume they were removed from the airport premises. I could tell the Guards / Security were angry to put it mildly, some tried to get at those giving them abuse & were restrained by their colleagues. Female security staff were also abused.
Saw the delayed flight still at the gate sometime past 9.30, I was on the 21.55 to Grimstead. We had a few, travellers I believe, on our flight, young teenage girls & their mams & aunts, trying to sing badly & some Eastern European lads joining on. Good natured enough so you had to laugh.
I know some decent traveller families, kids gone university & decent parents, so I don't like to judge everyone one of them. Still you have to be on alert when the travellers are around in large numbers.
If the troublemakers are on their way back to the UK, then surely good community policing would be taking every step possible to ensure that they catch their return flight? 😋
Maybe if country people stopped flytipping on the halting sites
There's a fair spectrum between sticking your neck out as a whistleblower and just bothering your arse to do the job you are collecting a salary for
Some people find it easier to just to go with the flow, climb the ladder etc than think too much about what they're doing, or not doing.
We see what happens to Garda whistleblowers, why bother?
How come only one was arrested?
there seemed to be more involved in very violent behaviour.
"Drink fuelled" is not an excuse, they should be taken to a drunk tank to cool down - and no way they should be allowed to board flights after such behaviour.
Yes, I have no doubt. Our courts and sentencing and how we respond to and deal with crime and law breakers has always been a huge issue. Some the stuff you read would make your blood boil.
It really is slickening when you think of all the effort and hard work and passion and commitment and fortitude you see from AGS, only for some asshole judge to piss all over this, and show nothing but contempt for AGS and society, when handing down disgustingly lenient and inappropriate sentences
That's completely understandable Wibbs.
What I couldn't condone is a guard who stays in the job, collecting the salary, but not bothering to do that job.
Because at the end of the day, it is their job to protect the public by enforcing laws. Regardless of whether the perpetrator is a first-time offender or someone who does it every day
If a teacher has a class of students who don't bother doing their work, the teacher still has to try. They can't just decide to rock into the classroom every day with a mug of tea and a paper and tell the students not to bother (even though probably a few do that)
I know three ex Guards who threw in the towel and a huge part of it was because of getting increasingly frustrated and disheartened when cases went to court, often after many months of work to nab bastards like this, build a case, get a guilty verdict, only for the judge to let them walk free, or hand down a slap on the wrist.
i do agree with this but the problem is if the gardai turn a blind eye what hope do we have, the person they ignored could then attack someone or worse
And herein lies the problem. If afraid, get the fook out (or get sacked) and let people who are not afraid do the job of upholding our laws.
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