if we ever had a terrorist attack in ireland ??

Merrion

twincamman wrote: »

serious question ..if we ever had a terrorist attack in Ireland similar to paris..do we have the people to deal with it ? as in trained armed people

Wow - how young are you?

CucaFace

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Rangers have helped with terrorist stuff before if I remember correctly.

Yep. Andy Goram especially was great at it.

UrbanFret

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

The Gardai have some Armed Response Unit, they've shot a few over the years, mostly bank robbers if I remember rightly.

John carthy?:rolleyes:

rafatoni

CucaFace wrote: »

Yep. Andy Goram especially was great at it.

Which andy. Wasn't there two?

An Claidheamh

twincamman wrote: »

serious question ..if we ever had a terrorist attack in Ireland similar to paris..do we have the people to deal with it ? as in trained armed people

Luckily for us if we ever had a terrorist attack in Ireland we'd have FG and Labour to cover it up and help the British/loyalists perpetrators get away.

Then we'd all pretend it never happened!

That's probably how we'd deal with it.

Sisko

Arsemageddon wrote: »

Bloody sunday - Brits shot dead 14 civilians
Kingsmill Massacre - IRA shot dead 10 civilians
Greysteel - Loyalists shot dead 8 civilians

Thats Northern Ireland though.

Think the OP was asking about Ireland.

Jawgap

UrbanFret wrote: »

John carthy?:rolleyes:

The guy they pleaded with to put down his weapon before the ERU a Guard drew his weapon and shot him in the legs? Then they continued to call on him to put down the weapon as he walked towards the outer cordon for about a minute before aiming for his lower torso when an unlucky ricochet caused the fatal injury?

Any other police force it would've been three warnings then a double tap to the lowest central part of the most visible mass......

the dark phantom

LuckyDude12 wrote: »

No but when muslims mock the christ do us christians end any human life or do anything about it? Absolutely **** all

Why would they mock Jesus Christ ? Sure he is the second most important Prophet of Islam.

doulikeit

TERRORISTS!!!!!
The jumbo breakfast roll is gonna kill more of us than any terrorist, fcuking centra thats our terrorist

yipeeeee

So we have this zalem fella mentioning Shannon tonight and how it is seen by many Muslims as I said earlier.

Very naive to think we aren't a target sooner or later.

McDermotX

the dark phantom wrote: »

Why would they mock Jesus Christ ? Sure he is the second most important Prophet of Islam.

Hold on !.........that's offensive.

(and round and round and round we go)

Billy86

the dark phantom wrote: »

Why would they mock Jesus Christ ? Sure he is the second most important Prophet of Islam.

Details, f***ing shmetails.

Jawgap

yipeeeee wrote: »

So we have this zalem fella mentioning Shannon tonight and how it is seen by many Muslims as I said earlier.

Very naive to think we aren't a target sooner or later.

Well the powers that be would like to drive that notion home that we'll inevitably be a target - what better premise on which to base laws restricting our rights as citizens, increasing surveillance and controlling our day-to-day lives?

If they can get people to believe that we'll be compelled to carry ID cards within two years.

Warper

No country is prepared fully for a terrorist attack

yipeeeee

Jawgap wrote: »

Well the powers that be would like to drive that notion home that we'll inevitably be a target - what better premise on which to base laws restricting our rights as citizens, increasing surveillance and controlling our day-to-day lives?

If they can get people to believe that we'll be compelled to carry ID cards within two years.

We're Just gonna have to disagree on this one.

Im fully convinced there is reasons in Ireland for some lunatic or lunatics to go on a rampage or plant a bomb.

Shannon been that number one reason.

Jawgap

Warper wrote: »

No country is prepared fully for a terrorist attack

Sure they are. Most country's, us included, would have their contingency plans ready and will have trained on them as they would for any major incident.

Jawgap

yipeeeee wrote: »

We're Just gonna have to disagree on this one.

Im fully convinced there is reasons in Ireland for some lunatic or lunatics to go on a rampage or plant a bomb.

Shannon been that number one reason.

Yes, I'm sure we are at risk......

World's Dumbest Jihadis

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100214465/the-10-stupidest-islamic-terrorists/

serious question how would Ireland handle it if it ever happened. Which I hope it never does.

What pro-cautions does Ireland have in place ?

.red.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

serious question?

Thats your first mistake there. This is After Hours!

endacl

There's a thread on this already. It was pointed out there that as a nation, we have some experience of terrorism.

Penny Tration

Probably give us more iodine tablets.

Crooked Jack

endacl wrote: »

There's a thread on this already. It was pointed out there that as a nation, we have some experience of terrorism.

yes but thankfully we've largely gotten rid of the Brits

nxbyveromdwjpg

Ever happened? It has happened with the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, not to mention the North.

Gavlor

We'd probably take the culprits in and give them a nice house in the suburbs of Galway. Just incase we are in breach of any eu law we'll also throw in €200 per week, free healthcare and try help them get a job in a local pharmaceutical company.

darkpagandeath

We would probably make multiple threads asking about the same topic.

The Bould Rabbit

Ever get that sense of Deja vu ?

Duggy747

Start negotiations with a packet of Tayto or King crisps?

Grayson

Gavlor wrote: »

We'd probably take the culprits in and give them a nice house in the suburbs of Galway. Just incase we are in breach of any eu law we'll also throw in €200 per week, free healthcare and try help them get a job in a local pharmaceutical company.

You forgot the free car & pram.

AnonoBoy

Deleted User wrote: »

What pro-cautions does Ireland have in place ?

Pro Cautions are overrated. They get soft with all that money they get paid.

Amateur Cautions are where the real excitement is at.

Sunday morning, freezing cold, pints and a roast after in the pub. That's real cautioning right there mate.

golfball37

We would do what we did when Dubln and Monaghan were bombed, close the investigation and get the Gardaí to lean on the victims families for having the temerity to ask what happened to their loved ones.

Grayson

Deleted User wrote: »

serious question how would Ireland handle it if it ever happened. Which I hope it never does.

What pro-cautions does Ireland have in place ?

We are probably one of the most experienced countries in western Europe.

bjork

Pop the Iodine tablets and drive west

or is it
drop, cover and roll?


Edit I remember now get under a table or stand in a door frame

Gatling

Grayson wrote: »

We are probably one of the most experienced countries in western Europe.

Actually no were not .

When's the last time we had an actual terror attack on civilians here and not the north .
Or the authorities here prevented attacks in our towns and cities

andrea1983

I'm not sure about being one of the most experienced countries in Europe...I doubt it very much tbf.

REXER

Easy, send in a few kegs of Guinness, get the lads pissed and then go in and join the party. :rolleyes:

bjork

Gatling wrote: »

Actually no were not .

When's the last time we had an actual terror attack on civilians here and not the north .
Or the authorities here prevented attacks in our towns and cities

Just off the top of my head 1996 there was a car bombing in Drogheda. I'm sure there are later ones. Although why north / south division is being made is beyond me

vex

waits for new terrorist tax to come out

Lovely Bloke

Probably <snip> it in the bud

bjork

I envy the younger ones on this thread who didn't grow up with a bombing/shooting/kneecapping in Ireland on the news every evening.

Gatling

bjork wrote: »

Just off the top of my head 1996 there was a car bombing in Drogheda. I'm sure there are later ones. Although why north / south division is being made is beyond me

Because most of the terrorist related attacks were carried out in the north and dealt with by British military .
So by saying we are very successful at dealing with counter and anti terrorism operations is a large stretch of the imagination

buck65

We would recoil in horror, the Taoiseach would make his way to the site to sympathise with the families, the terrorists would end up in Government

bjork

Gatling wrote: »

Because most of the terrorist related attacks were carried out in the north and dealt with by British military .
So by saying we are very successful at dealing with counter and anti terrorism operations is a large stretch of the imagination

Here's a recent successful counter operation by the Gardai in Louth

http://www.newstalk.com/Men-arrested-over-Louth-bomb-find-charged-with-IRA-membership

Panrich

I seriously doubt if we have major intelligence or infiltration of the muslim community here.

Riskymove

bjork wrote: »

Just off the top of my head 1996 there was a car bombing in Drogheda. I'm sure there are later ones. Although why north / south division is being made is beyond me

Guards arrested a guy in Lucan last year with a large car-bomb prepared

Riskymove

Gatling wrote: »

So by saying we are very successful at dealing with counter and anti terrorism operations is a large stretch of the imagination

Plenty of people caught and imprisoned here related to the troubles

lots of intelligence sharing in recent times on dissidents

Riskymove

Panrich wrote: »

I seriously doubt if we have major intelligence or infiltration of the muslim community here.

I doubt it too but there hasn't been any indication of much radicalisation or particular trouble...yet

Everlong1

The Gardai, in cooperation with the PSNI have been very successful in infiltrating the alphabet soup of Republican murder groups since the Omagh atrocity. I'd echo Panrich's comment though about their capacity in relation to potential Islamist nutters. Apart from the occasional burst of outrage like the recent one about the Islamic nutter who wants all Irish Mulsim kids segregated in school, we haven't had any problems yet with home grown Islamist nutbars.

I wouldn't be optimistic about our response is anything like the London or Paris attacks happened here. Our response to pretty much every problem in this country is to ignore it and hope it goes away until it blows up in our face. Then we have an outpouring of outrage, promises to end the scandal once and for all, then set up a committee to produce 200 recommendations which are never implemented.

BMJD

We'd blame everyone other than the culprits because we are afraid of offending anyone.

irish coldplayer

Everlong1 wrote: »

we haven't had any problems yet with home grown Islamist nutbars.

not yet but....

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/ireland-tops-list-of-jihadi-fighters-in-foreign-wars-30563746.html

Pinch Flat

Panrich wrote: »

I seriously doubt if we have major intelligence or infiltration of the muslim community here.

I rented a house in Dublin in 2000. When we moved in, we didn't think anything of the Arabic newspapers used to blank up the wall vents - it was cold and draughty.

Then 911 happened. Out of the blue we had the Special branch followed by a journalist from the thwn Sunday trubune on our door step.

Turns out the house was occupied by a group of students at ucd, some of whom had links to radical Islamic terrorism. The reason we got the calls was that a charity used to filter funds for these guys was registered at our address