River Corrib

extraice · 08-01-2012 04:06AM #1

there lot blue lights on last 2 Bridge .... .o'brien's bridge and Wolfe Tone Bridge
any know whats happen ?

Ficheall · 08-01-2012 04:40AM

I saw two emergency vehicles with lights flashing going down Distillery road at about 1:30am - one of them was towing a rescue boat. Inauspicious

Robmeister2011 · 08-01-2012 12:26PM

I noticed them too, then heard (and can still hear) the Coast Guard zooming over the house. GalwayNews.ie says a man was seen entering the water on Wolfe Tone Bridge.

vulcan57 · 08-01-2012 05:22PM

Yeah, apparently a man was seen going into the river just before 3 this morning and before that there was a fella in a boat on the river above salmon wier that had gone missing, hence the coast guard boat as the lifeboat can't get up there. Both the coast guard boat and lifeboat were later searching the docks area for the man seen entering the water. The helicopter was up then this morning searching both areas. Sadly don't think they've found anyone of the two as yet.

extraice · 08-01-2012 05:40PM

apparently a man was seen going into the river just before 3 this morning , thought city was cctv .... what about the bridges ?
time for nets are somethink ....

Zzippy · 08-01-2012 11:21PM

extraice wrote: »

apparently a man was seen going into the river just before 3 this morning , thought city was cctv .... what about the bridges ?
time for nets are somethink ....

There is no net in the world that could withstand that volume of water and all the debris that gets washed down in high floods.

12 element · 08-01-2012 11:57PM

Zzippy wrote: »

There is no net in the world that could withstand that volume of water and all the debris that gets washed down in high floods.

I think he meant a net under the bridge to catch people not one in the water. Still wouln't work though.

Zzippy · 09-01-2012 12:09PM

12 element wrote: »

I think he meant a net under the bridge to catch people not one in the water. Still wouln't work though.

Someone determined to commit suicide will find a way, so you're right, nets under the bridge would also not work.

Wompa1 · 09-01-2012 12:20PM

Nothing more than a comment but has anybody else noticed that if this is the guy who went into the river, this will be the third student in an IT related course to kill themselves in the city this year...just a comment and I know it doesn't really matter.

biko · 09-01-2012 02:46PM

Let's keep speculating and discussion about causes etc down until the papers have released information

Samich · 09-01-2012 08:50PM

Wompa1 wrote: »

Nothing more than a comment but has anybody else noticed that if this is the guy who went into the river, this will be the third student in an IT related course to kill themselves in the city this year...just a comment and I know it doesn't really matter.

He's in UL.

Anyways would the person have jumped in the river at 3 o clock in the day? <snip>

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