Irish Citizens and families to be evacuated from Djibouti and Sudan

Most of those Irish citizens and dependents are aid workers. They're not there on a pub crawl or vlogging for YouTube.

Don't worry too much, the French air providing the airlift facility. You may send your thanks to the long-suffering French taxpayer.

Btw, the Ranger Wing love this sort of stuff. It's what they signed up for and take their duties seriously. They wont be p*ssing around giving Irish citizens the silent treatment like you think they will. They were itching to go to Kabul the last time out.

Agreed. It's time to get the chequebook out on this front.

We were extremely fortunate in Kabul the French agreed to let the Ranger Wing hitch to Afghanistan and indeed allowed for space for Irish citizens to be brought home.

The next crisis we may not be so lucky.

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Are you making the arguement that aid workers shouldn't be in potentially unstable or poor countries? Hot take. Where should aid workers ply their trade - Monte Carlo?

Ranger Wing members spend their time daydreaming about missions like this. They're on their way to Africa right now with a sh*t eating grin on their collective faces. It's what they singed up for, it's what they're trained out the wazoo for, and it's what they wanted to do ever since they were in short trousers.

What's your bellyache? That aid workers are out there doing their jobs? That the Army Ranger Wing are heading out there doing theirs? This thread is silly and you haven't made a single point beyond some garbled angryman boilerplate.

The travel advice from all Western governemnt foreign ministries was consistent with all other countries in the region until the latest fissure of violence which came out of the blue.

It's Africa, and every country on the continent is liable to have their securtity situation upended. If you're trying to make some sort of odd point that no Irish or Western civilians in general should be in Africa at all, then make it.

Until then, the Ranger Wing are on their way, and they'll be extracting Irish citizens who do honourable and important work in a country that needs it. And aid workers will continue to do their decent work in parts of the world you don't think about until it becomes a headline. End of.

I bet the US are balls deep in arming and funding a good chunk of this shithole meltdown.

Looks like the non serious white people are leaving.

Fun times ahead!

Ah yes, according to the Twitter historians.

Dumb times ahead!

It started seriously kicking off in Sudan weeks ago. Aid worker or not, why stay until the point where you need to be rescued? Also, why oh why are we always begging other EU armies to save us? It’s pathetic.

The other point I want to make is, if the government is responsible for evacuating private Irish citizens from the scene of serious incidents then how would we rescue the 1000s of people we’d need to fetch home from London or New York if something similar happened there?

Here we go. Thread has taken a predictible turn.

To pre-empt, there is no such thing as two tier Irish citizenship. There's not "an Irish passport" and a "nod and a wink, not really Irish passport".

I'll be plain about it, racist gunge. Thread had a bang of it from the off to be frank.

Suck it up. The government has a duty to protect Irish citizens in a crisis, and they're going to.

Not everyone spends their lives sitting with their thumb up their ar*e in a provincial Irish town. Some people live lives of meaning doing things like working in the aid sector actually doing good in the world.

They are not, and will not be abandoned. Niall Boylan "taxpayer" bullsh*tter rhetoricians can go to hell on this front. There'll be another "taxpayer" whinge the next day about something else. You're never finished.

Try not to get so upset over someone else’s opinion Yurt. I’ve lived all over the world and I can safely say if I was anywhere and it got a bit hairy I’d have just legged it.

My only child is in the Middle East and the responsibility to look after her own safety is hers and hers alone.

Your total dependence on the nanny state to make all your big boy decisions for you is fairly typical of the prevailing wind at the moment.

You’ve failed to give any suggestion as to why they didn’t make any attempt to leave earlier….

They failed to "leg it" earlier because the assualt on Khartoum came out of nowhere, and no Western governments were advising evacuation before then.

Even your genius worldly balls would have been in a vice being squeezed purple. Or are you smarter still than every Westerner in Khartoum? You obviously rate yourself.

If your daughter lives in the middle east, I hope you don't have to ring the Department of Foreign Affairs some day wondering what happened to her and what they can do for her. I mean that.

Happens every day in some part of the world, and you know what? The person answering the phone won't respond with "well what the f*ck was she doing there the f*cking eejit?"

Because they're professionals and know that not everyone is sitting by the pool in Dubai every day.