Brawl breaks out at Dublin Airport

The Guards trousered 10's of thousands in overtime payments during Covid for standing on the side of the road questioning people going about their business but at the Country's busiest airport a load of knacks can indulge in a punch-up for 5minutes without a Guard in sight.

That figures.

the airport has its own police force.

I never knew they had bank accounts and plastic cards, you know.... how do you book a Ryanair flight with cash boss? But I suppose someone has one.

Where the hell was the airport police? If this happened in a UK airport these apes would be taken care of in 2 minutes.

Enough to prevent a fight breaking out.

It's an area subject to huge crowds, it should have a permanent security presence that is so overt that it prevents this.

A law unto themselves.

people jumping in to save the guy on the ground was funny, like oh , it’s gone too far now haha.

scumbags should be left at it.

At least they are putting facilities in place

The security staff in question need to be subjected to disciplinary action,

as to why no response was made to the fighting.

The other people who got involved in the barney... were they innocent members of the public trying to break it up?

Best solution there is to let them out of country and ban the lot from reentry.

It's alright folks the minister for justice has just said on radio that 'lessons will be learned from this'. 🤣

Completely Agree. Anyone on the ground who has their head stamped is at risk of absolute carnage to their brain. Every 10 year old knows how that goes. Its why we crush cans like that before recycling. Immediate attempted murder charge in my opinion.

Where were the fairplay men?

I don't believe that to be the case. Dublin Airport Police are a very specialised force who deal with byelaws relevant to the airport and are also trained in firefighting / public safety and first responding.

An incident of this nature is beyond the remit of Airport Police and needs Gardaí with experience of public order policing and use of force against non-compliant people.

As has been pointed out here, other European nations' large airports have a visible armed police or army presence spread throughout the airport. They wear earpieces and are backed by CCTV so, when something goes down, they react quickly and are not far away. I have seen it with my own eyes in Stansted, Gatwick. In Paris CDG, they were wearing camouflage.

The truth is that it should have been possible to identify these men as a potential risk prior to any trouble starting, and resources should have been deployed close to the area.

Reports of guns/explosives successfully getting through airside, reports of laptops going missing from luggage during security, reports of airport staff assaulting passengers, reports of passengers snaking around in queues for over an hour, reports of toilets overflowing and stinking, and now reports of minorities attempting murder airside in the terminal freely for minutes on end without a whiff of security or police intervention

I'm sure the DAA, Gardai and the Government will reassure the population they are doing a great job with Dublin Airport as the main gateway to our country and that they are totally prepared for a terrorist attack

Agree. Not blaming individual lads and lassies that work at it.

But if your role is to police the airport, and you're called airport police. And you have handcuffs, powers of arrest and the DAA website says your role is to make arrests, detect crime within the airport grounds and terminals....

Have it one or the other. Either have the Gardaí there 24/7 and disband the airport police, or keep the airport police.

But then when something like this happens, don't go quiet and let it become a garda issue. Of course, they responded and should too, and made an arrest.

But I'm a bit confused as to why the DAA/Airport police aren't being asked questions and the guards are.

Not that there's much to answer tbh, alot can happen in 3 mins. I get that if there was an airport police patrol there, it probably wouldn't have happened, it simply would've erupted on the next floor up or in a separate part of the building, again 3 or 4 mins away.

Crucially, we don't know the background. I've seen guards arrest someone at my business, then during chats you'd find they interviewed him etc. Not 60 seconds later you could have some scumbag committing a crime, but the guards have left with Mr Interview seconds prior. Not their fault. Scumbags the one to blame.

Anyway, either have an airport police or don't imo. Not some token lads who are in the airport police but everything shifts to the guards. Give them power if necessary or get rid. Not this grey accountability.

In fairness they probably haven't been asked to go in shows to discuss and knowing our media they wouldn't be asked anything about. Also in the reports I haven't heard that these people were part of the traveller community.