Brawl breaks out at Dublin Airport

The likes of PBP and SF are completely irrelevant. No doubt they don't give a $hit about wider society just like any other political racket, but They have not been in power while this disgraceful and cowardly blind eye act has been enabled towards this section of society for the last 50 years. They are not in power today. We need the authorities in power today to do something about this now, they should have done it over 20 years ago but have continuously ignored and placated the problem to such a level where members of this society obviously now believe they can literally carry out in a split second violent actions in a place such as an international airport that terrorist cells would have to spend years planning. That's no joke, that what this incident showcases. These people literally do not give a f**k. And those in power the last 50 years have enabled them to not give it.

It was a standard Traveller fight, with 2 'fair play' men separating the lads when they got into a wrestle and encouraging then to stand up and box. But the fair play men didn't do their job when the third party came in from the side with a sucker punch and follow up kicks to the head cos his man was losing. That's probably cos it wasn't organised properly and a bit spontaneous (needed a few call out videos and a few bets first)

The weird thing is that the whole thing was acted out in an international airport in exactly the same way if it was organised down in Big Joe Joyce's farm in Moate. The lads have absolutely no embarrassment about it.

you are wrong. Yes it could but not with the horse box,!

I could understand airport police being reluctant here. They're just civillians in a role and not Gardai. They have the power of arrest the same as every single person in this country. But most people don't know what's needed to use that (the crime being witnessed must have a potential prison term of 5 years or more). They then perform a citizens arrest and detain until handover to AGS. But I can understand the reluctance. Aside from people who really want to make it an issue, we know they're travellers. As described above, the fight was performed exactly like every other traveller fight. 2 lads, surrounded by onlookers who separate the hugging and pick them up if knocked down. Man to man on your feet, that's how they fight. Or used to.

So it wasn't just the 2 fighting, they'd have god knows how many others getting involved. I've been in situations where you get a call to a halting site because of a massive fight, you get there, see the amount of travellers and knowing full well if you went in you'd get hammered. You've to wait for backup. Safety in numbers. No job is worth a hammering. Until it's safe to intervene, you observe and take note to be used in evidence. That's just normal process no matter which country you're a cop in. The heroes end up getting killed or seriously injured. Yes, it's their job to enforce the law, not their job to knowingly put yourself in harms way. This isn't 'Merica.

But I'm sure there's lots on here who think the Garda on €45k should put his safety on the line to protect travellers from themselves, regardless of backup. I can tell a lot of ye wouldn't be great at planning security... Any airport police, or even a permanent Garda presence (outside of the small station with mainly admin duties, mostly immigration), if he had intervened with a heavy hand, which is what would be required here, let's be honest, would be ripped asunder by the bleeding hearts and anti-Garda brigade. Don't know how they still do it tbh. I ran, and I'll never look back. People suck.

"Independent.ie understands that the group involved included relatives living in the UK who had travelled to Co Meath for a funeral.

They were due to fly back from Dublin Airport when their flight was delayed.

A source said: "There was a lot of alcohol drunk which was made worse with the delay and the fight initially broke out between two men over a historic dispute. "

I love all the euphemisms that they have to use to avoid saying they were T's. A historic dispute, were they arguing over the treaty of Versailles?

Why can't they just say they're Travellers? They want to be called Travellers.

I'd have to ask the point of the airport police then really if they are so powerless considering the importance of the airport and the number of people through it.

I was in Schipol a few weeks ago watching the marchaussee strolling round with long guns.

Some lad pulled a knife on them in Eindhoven a few years ago and they shot him on the spot. LOL

RTE are terrified of covering this....small story on the website....

This is borderline terrorism....imagine this carry on in any other major European Airport.....swift justice would have been handed out that would make Padraig Nally blush.....

Sure didn't a European auditor working to test the level of security at the airport smuggle a gun through security a number of weeks ago.

I don’t know, probably not. I’d imagine it’ll be used as a call out from someone on the other side as a lucrative call out for a PPV fight in the future.

TDs horrified apparently- https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/thuggish-behaviour-at-dublin-airport-condemned-in-d%C3%A1il_arid-40880936.html

Senator Eileen Flynn, a traveller appointed directly as a senator by Michael Martin, should be called before a committee to give her comments on this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Flynn_(politician)

She's a representative of their community. They need to be held accountable for their actions.

Pavee Point, John Connors and more are straight out of the blocks when it suits them to comment, but are nowhere to be seen when incidents like this occur.