army convoy

patrickc

did anyone else see the huge army convoy in Dublin today, i was on the luas and it got stopped at suir road by the gardai, to let a convoy of about 50 army vehicles through, mostly trucks and jeeps all full of soldiers. does anyone know what this was all about?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

some of the US soldiers in shannon tried to stage a coup.

Kid Nothing

didn't see this one but i saw one a few months back. They were U.N. vehicles that time (the tank-like things!!!) Wonder where they go, what they're for

Dord

Didn't see it, but noticed an unusual amount of army vehicles around the city in the last few days.

Voodu Child

Crashed Lizard spaceship. Shhh! :mad:

patrickc

fair enough if the bomb squad trick was there or if they were escorting mary harney's dinner again but didn't seem like they were escorting anything

Manic Moran

I, for one, would welcome new Army overlords...

Black Swan

Manic Moran wrote:

I, for one, would welcome new Army overlords...

Cause you are military?

challengemaster

could have been training exercises somewhere?

Dave!

joe robot wrote:

Didn't see it, but noticed an unusual amount of army vehicles around the city in the last few days.

About 10 army vehicles passed (in rapid succession) through Terenure on Tuesday.... thought it was strange, but maybe they were goin to Rathmines or something.

Anybody able to explain this?

Kintarō Hattori

One question. When our soldiers are on peace keeping missions, how do they transport the APC's to the country their going to? As far as I'm aware we don't have any transports big enough to carry them and with sufficient range?!

projectmayhem

they went up to the north to claim it back

oleras

eo980 wrote:

One question. When our soldiers are on peace keeping missions, how do they transport the APC's to the country their going to? As far as I'm aware we don't have any transports big enough to carry them and with sufficient range?!

An Post ?

John Mason

weel, just asked me bro who is in the army, he reckons the lads were propbably just bored and decided to go for a spin

Sputnik

One question. When our soldiers are on peace keeping missions, how do they transport the APC's to the country their going to? As far as I'm aware we don't have any transports big enough to carry them and with sufficient range?!

Commerical transport. This will change in the future since at least one of the new vessels for the navy will have the ability to transport APC's

Alter-Ego

We must be at war.

patrickc

irishbird wrote:

weel, just asked me bro who is in the army, he reckons the lads were propbably just bored and decided to go for a spin

with garda escort?

Dave!

Anybody else think there's been a coup?

MOH

Maybe they all went to the zoo?

John Mason

patrickc2006 wrote:

with garda escort?

off course, to help them get through the rush hour traffic sheesh:p

anthony4335

Well would you like to see so many people sitting around dublin traffic with guns. Might just decide to reduce traffic themselfs.

Random

Is this related to the 3 big looking green choppers (they looked like something outta Black Hawk Down .. but they weren't black!) flying in formation around the Naas road / Baldonnell about 1030 this morning?

Pyr0

it was probably for the careers day in the RDS today, the army had two APCs there, with an artillery gun, anti tank launcher and other equipment.

Ekancone

Ze Germans are coming...

Gazza22

Around 15 full trucks went through the city centre around 2am last night

seamus

I saw the bomb disposal unit flaking it through Kilmainham with Garda escort at some point last week. Same day that the site on infirmary road went up in flames.

Degsy

They're going to pour across the border,taking the north without firing a shot,annexing the six counties and heralding a new era of peace.

Rhyme

MOH wrote:

Maybe they all went to the zoo?

I support this view.

Pyr0 wrote:

it was probably for the careers day in the RDS today, the army had two APCs there, with an artillery gun, anti tank launcher and other equipment.

Did they have that weird bomb-rock?

Ekancone

Degsy wrote:

They're going to pour across the border,taking the north without firing a shot,annexing the six counties and heralding a new era of peace.

Hahahaha, yeah right!

Pyr0

I don't get what you mean by a bomb-rock ?

They had a speed boat there, bomb disposal squad, heavy ordinance etc

So i'm pretty sure it was them going through the city.

constellation

daithifleming wrote:

Ze Germans are coming...

For the last time, they are Polish...

Rhyme

Pyr0 wrote:

I don't get what you mean by a bomb-rock ?

A few years back when i was at that careers day they all sorts of equipment (Steyr AUG's, artillery shells and mortars) and one of the things they had was a plastic rock which would be packed full of explosives and set by a road side. The guys explaining all the equipment took a particular interest in the rock.

eroo

Rhyme wrote:

A few years back when i was at that careers day they all sorts of equipment (Steyr AUG's, artillery shells and mortars) and one of the things they had was a plastic rock which would be packed full of explosives and set by a road side. The guys explaining all the equipment took a particular interest in the rock.

yep,it was there as well as mortars,GPMG and Steyr,as well as rocket launchers/bazookas.
-eroo

Binomate

I don't know about this convoy, but there is talk of cake.

the_syco

Todays Metro showed a picture of three of the air corps choppers flying over the Phoenix Park, with soldiers in them. Most likely exercises, to see how quickly they can get from A to B, in case of an emergency.

miju

voodoo_child wrote:

Crashed Lizard spaceship. Shhh! :mad:

hmmmmmmmmm conspriacy you say

Manic Moran

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Cause you are military?

Well, that, and they have guns and most people don't.

NTM

CantGetNoSleep

I was in Croatia a few weeks ago and I saw a convoy of army trucks, maybe not 50, driving through a city and I joked that it was the Irish army starting to take over the world, turned out it was them

I was wrong on the taking over the world bit though, they were returning from Kosovo

sdanseo

seamus wrote:

I saw the bomb disposal unit flaking it through Kilmainham with Garda escort at some point last week. Same day that the site on infirmary road went up in flames.

Yup, there was dangerous chemicals or something on the site that looked liable to explode. Luckily nothing went up afaik.

MooseJam

Cause we got a great big convoy Rockin’ through the night Yeah, we got a great big convoy, Ain’t she a beautiful sight?

AlmightyCushion

MooseJam wrote:

Cause we got a great big convoy Rockin’ through the night Yeah, we got a great big convoy, Ain’t she a beautiful sight?

I seen that episode today as well.