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3 choppers circling finglas

gracehopper · 2007-11-06 15:16:21

does anyone know whats going on in and around finglas and glasnevin??? There are 3 choppers circlingthe area all day and not just the garda ones 2 big expensive looking ones aswell

06-11-2007 4:16pm

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does anyone know whats going on in and around finglas and glasnevin???

There are 3 choppers circlingthe area all day and not just the garda ones 2 big expensive looking ones aswell

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#2 06-11-2007 4:19pm

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If the two big ones are red and White painted Helicopters then they are Irish Coast Guard Sikorsky S61N Search And Rescue Helicopters but if they are Green then they are Irish Air Corps Troop Transport AW139 Helicopters.

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#3 06-11-2007 4:20pm

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This thread has been biko'ed!

Now that that's done, anyone know what's happening? I love the way you assume the garda helicopter is cheap. What are ya, a moneybags?

Going by my meagre salary all helicopters are expensive

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#4 06-11-2007 4:23pm

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r3nu4l wrote: »

I love the way you assume the garda helicopter is cheap.

Far from it, the Gardai Choppers are very expensive as is the Gardai Fixed Wing Surveillance Aircraft , what with all the Surveillance Equipment they have.

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#5 06-11-2007 4:29pm

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Steyr wrote: »

Far from it, the Gardai Choppers are very expensive as is the Gardai Fixed Wing Surveillance Aircraft , what with all the Surveillance Equipment they have.

Does anyone know why they were out and about? It'd want to be something serious to get that many up in the air.

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#6 06-11-2007 4:32pm

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maybe someone has stolen a car in Finglas :eek:

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#7 06-11-2007 4:38pm

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There was a huge drugs bust, the ERU were up there and everything

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#8 06-11-2007 4:56pm

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r3nu4l wrote: »

This thread has been biko'ed!

Now that that's done, anyone know what's happening? I love the way you assume the garda helicopter is cheap. What are ya, a moneybags?

Going by my meagre salary all helicopters are expensive

biko'ed???

not the british institute of karate organisation!!!!!

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#9 06-11-2007 5:06pm

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The armed convoys just arent quick enough anymore for Mary Harney(I believe she was quoted as saying, "you call THIS 'fast food' "?!?!?!), so she's putting her salary increase to good use and airlifting her lunch. Is there a McDonald's in Finglas?

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#10 06-11-2007 5:07pm

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gracehopper wrote: »

biko'ed???

not the british institute of karate organisation!!!!!

No Gracehopper! You have much to learn in the way of the boards.ie:)

Nope, biko, a Black Belt in finding (mainly) Dublin threads in AH and reporting them for moving to the appropriate forum! In fairness to him, he's almost always right about these things!

EDIT: Actually, the picture in his current sig is quite appropriate to the tone of this post

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#11 06-11-2007 5:08pm

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gracehopper wrote: »

does anyone know whats going on in and around finglas and glasnevin???
There are 3 choppers circlingthe area all day

Fingers crossed that they're crop-dusting with poison.

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#12 06-11-2007 5:10pm

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i am in finglas at the moment, i havent heard anything and usually the dog goes mental when the 'copters are around!!

no mcdonald's but we have a burger king

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#13 06-11-2007 5:13pm

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irishbird wrote: »

i am in finglas at the moment, i havent heard anything and usually the dog goes mental when the 'copters are around!!

no mcdonald's but we have a burger king

that's not your burger king, it's glasnevin's! talk about having to nail things down...;)

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#14 06-11-2007 5:15pm

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ntlbell wrote: »

that's not your burger king, it's glasnevin's! talk about having to nail things down...;)

you finglas heads always say your from glasnevin

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#15 06-11-2007 5:20pm

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gracehopper wrote: »

you finglas heads always say your from glasnevin

No we don't that's so 1980s now it's clonee

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#16 06-11-2007 10:29pm

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Slow Motion wrote: »

No we don't that's so 1980s now it's clonee

Tell you what, last week Finglas had even moved to Santry..

Me... Where to?
Them... Santry, Ta
later on
Them ... Why you going this way.. As I drove towards the Omni from Whitehall....You shudda turned up Collins Ave.

Me......What

Them...... Up on Collins Ave, right into Ballymun,left at Days Inn, right past Musgroves then onto Citygate

WTF

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#17 07-11-2007 12:29am

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Spook_ie wrote: »

Tell you what, last week Finglas had even moved to Santry..

Me... Where to?
Them... Santry, Ta
later on
Them ... Why you going this way.. As I drove towards the Omni from Whitehall....You shudda turned up Collins Ave.

Me......What

Them...... Up on Collins Ave, right into Ballymun,left at Days Inn, right past Musgroves then onto Citygate

WTF

lawls

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#18 07-11-2007 10:08am

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gracehopper wrote: »

you finglas heads always say your from glasnevin

Its Castlenock east, did you not know that?!

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