Person fell inthe Liffey today near O'Connel Bridge (1st Sep)

01-09-2007 09:47PM #1

Was passing by in a bus and didn't see how it ended. Saw one garda run down some steps into the river. Two fire engines showed up and one fire chief estate car pulled up. Does anyone have anymore info on what happened?

Cheeky_gal · 01-09-2007 09:50PM

How can u fall in the liffey??? Oh wait... I think I have a fair idea!

bronte · 01-09-2007 09:54PM

Was that not the man who was found dead in the liffey? Only caught a bit on the news, but It was around o connell bridge near eden quay.
If it's a different incident then that's the second time someone's been in there in the space of 24 hours

Cheeky_gal · 01-09-2007 09:58PM

bronte wrote:

Was that not the man who was found dead in the liffey? Only caught a bit on the news, but It was around o connell bridge near eden quay.
If it's a different incident then that's the second time someone's been in there in the space of 24 hours

Wow...how did this happen?

01-09-2007 09:59PM

bronte wrote:

Was that not the man who was found dead in the liffey? Only caught a bit on the news, but It was around o connell bridge near eden quay.
If it's a different incident then that's the second time someone's been in there in the space of 24 hours

No his body was removed last night, this was a rescue attempt, with a guard heading into the water.

patrickc · 01-09-2007 10:11PM

either way this guy will be coming out "glowing" if he fell into the liffey

bronte · 01-09-2007 10:11PM

Oh it's the second person? Weird!
The first incident was last night as D said, He was a man in his 50's found dead in the Liffey near eden quay.
Guards aren't treating it as suspicious

Was weird cos I was in there that night..didn't see anything though

tuxy · 01-09-2007 10:14PM

bronte wrote:

Was weird cos I was in there that night

If people like you continue to go into the liffy , there will be more deaths

bronte · 01-09-2007 10:28PM

Haha!I just read my post again... I meant in the city

Dyr · 01-09-2007 11:06PM

Any word on if they were wearing knickers?

humanji · 01-09-2007 11:35PM

Bambi wrote:

Any word on if they were wearing knickers?

And if not, are there photos?

bohsman · 01-09-2007 11:48PM

So thats why I was late for my match, traffic was at a standstill on O Connell St. Remember once a few years ago someone thought about falling into the Liffey, guards were trying to talk them down, big crowd gathered, half of them started chanting Jump, jump, jump.

Steez · 01-09-2007 11:52PM

bohsman wrote:

chanting Jump, jump, jump.

Didn't know that house of pain song was still so popular...

Deliverance · 02-09-2007 12:30AM

bohsman wrote:

So thats why I was late for my match, traffic was at a standstill on O Connell St. Remember once a few years ago someone thought about falling into the Liffey, guards were trying to talk them down, big crowd gathered, half of them started chanting Jump, jump, jump.

Must have been a general cry for help from the crowd. Society and all that.

This happened in England, Luton, a few years ago. The guy stood on the roof of the library of all places, in a desperate state. The crowd chanted 'jump, jump'. He jumped. Broke his back and legs. He ended up running a local hostel for homeless people. Go figure the conscience of the mind of people who possibly think to much.

¬_¬ · 02-09-2007 12:36AM

i blame the return of Kris Kross

Stephen · 02-09-2007 12:39AM

hahahaha

I remember those little bollixes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UgficQpYE4

The tax man · 02-09-2007 12:55AM

Probably just bought a little something on the board walk,took it,thought they where on the beech and decided to go for a swim.

Terry · 02-09-2007 02:10AM

Deliverance wrote:

Must have been a general cry for help from the crowd. Society and all that.

This happened in England, Luton, a few years ago. The guy stood on the roof of the library of all places, in a desperate state. The crowd chanted 'jump, jump'. He jumped. Broke his back and legs. He ended up running a local hostel for homeless people. Go figure the conscience of the mind of people who possibly think to much.

No. That never happened.
Only people in Ireland say things like that.

ballooba · 02-09-2007 06:06PM

A guy drowned in the Liffey on Thurs night and a guy in his 50s last night AFAIK.

AlmightyCushion · 02-09-2007 06:09PM

ballooba wrote:

A guy drowned in the Liffey on Thurs night and a guy in his 50s last night AFAIK.

Was he wearing knickers?

Mary Jo · 02-09-2007 06:28PM

From Today's Indo:
Man drowns in Liffey but no-one tries to rescue him

Sunday September 02 2007

It happened with a loud splash in the River Liffey as thousands of people were coming out of pubs and cinemas after a Friday night out in Dublin.

A man in his 50s, well dressed in a leather jacket, had just jumped off the parapet of O'Connell Bridge into the dark waters of the river.

Brian Merriman, who was waiting for a bus to Templeogue with a friend on Eden Quay, saw what happened.

"I heard a splash. A guy had jumped in off the east side of the bridge into the river," he said. "He was flat face down in the water for about a minute, he disappeared, then he came up again."

He said a couple of ambulances showed up, along with gardai and the Dublin Fire Brigade. "A couple of people were stripping down to go in after him but the gardai were keeping people back, moving them off the boardwalk.

"People who were inclined to get in and try and save him I'm sure thought once the emergency services arrived they would do that, but no-one made any attempt to go in."

He said the man had been on the surface of the water till about 11.10pm, then disappeared for 20 minutes before re-appearing.

"If gardai had not turned up, people would have gotten in after him," he said. "No-one did anything about it."

Brian, a systems administrator in a trading company, said he had watched the scene for about 25 minutes before leaving for home.

The Garda Press Office said yesterday the incident happened sometime after 11pm and the man's body was recovered around 11.30.

Gardai from Store Street station had responded but they had also been concerned about people's safety in preventing them from jumping into the river. The Dublin Fire Brigade said firemen would not just jump into the river in such a case but would apply certain water techniques such as using their river rescue boat or tying a line around a fireman before he went into the river.

¬_¬ · 03-09-2007 03:02PM

"If gardai had not turned up, people would have gotten in after him," he said. "No-one did anything about it."

..."and we'd have had to take out more than one body."

_blank_ · 03-09-2007 03:13PM

It wasn't YORE MA so.

Slipping up AHers, slipping up.

doonothing · 03-09-2007 03:33PM

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Was he wearing knickers?

asl plz

Person fell inthe Liffey today near O'Connel Bridge (1st Sep)

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