Leinster House Break In / Trespass

I suspect some security personnel will be getting a bollicking soon, but let's keep this in context

It's a public building, not a fortress, nor is it designed to be one. All the debate that happens there is open for public records and while there's probably some fairly sensitive documents held on-site, I'm not sure we'd be looking at the theft of earth shattering national secrets

Then again maybe the launch codes to Ireland's secret stockpile of nuclear weapons is actually scratched into the bench where the Taoiseach sits (along with the words "Biffo is a bollocks" 😂)

Let's say worst case scenario happened and the 16 year old somehow snuggled a load of incendiaries and explosives on-site and destroyed the building.....while it was mostly empty

It'd be a national tragedy no doubt for the lives that would be lost, not to mention losing such a symbolic building, but the reality is the Dail would just move to another building and carry on it's business.

The biggest issue would probably be the collateral damage to the national museums and archives nearby, I always wondered if it was wise putting a lot portion of the countries historical records and artifacts within a 1km square area

An apathetic, "shur it's grand" attitude permeates Irish life. In terms of security and defence, it can be seen in everything from our overall military capabilities to policing to security.

I used to work in the public service and there were several incidents where nutters entered offices and threatened staff. Security of buildings was non existent. But because no actual physical harm occurred, no changes were implemented. The response of management to "what if he had a knife?" was "well he didn't have a knife did he".

a lot more like jan 6th in the states in fairness

and to think just 13 years later some think sf are ft to govern ,

no idea what depot police is. the gate house is manned by gardai every day on the front and back gate allocated from Pearce street station i think , internal security is military police i believe and yes its a joke

the biker may have been from the garda traffic office which is very close by or just passing

The depot police are the military police based in government buildings.

There is a second video going round of that motorbike Garda holding Aongus by the threat with soldiers in the background.

Correct. Kid breaks into Leinster House. Gets caught. The end.

TBH,we in Ireland despite our virtual 34 years of ongoing terrorist problem in Northern Ireland and Narco gangs roaming our streets have a relaxed attitude to our politician's security compared to Italy or Germany, where I have dealt with politicians and their security. It's one thing I have to say is still nice in Ireland that all of our politicians, including the resident Hobbitt in the park are still approachable and contactable by the Irish citizenry and they can still be met in local clinics or bumped into, more or less, on the street.

To get to meet for example the equivalent of a German TD, is a lengthy and serious process of paperwork, finding a date, having pre-security screening,a security team checking out the location of the meeting, issuing passes and all the rest to even get you within sight of the man or minister. Once the security detail arrives,you'd swear the US president was on the way,not the local minister for roads. Have a demo outside his house? There will be a battalion of fully tooled-up riot cops there within an hour. Remember moany Joan Burton being besieged at Jobstown in her official car? Wouldnt have happened in Germany, and other probably might have been a fatality on the demonstrator's side, as her security detail would probably have pegged a couple of 9mms into the more mouthier protestors.

Maybe if we had had a few slotted TDs in our midst as did the Italians and Germans back in the 70s and 80s it might be a different story, but by and large we don't take potshots or bomb our local Reps,and like any public figures they get their share of crank and hate mail. It's how they deal with it is more important.Most ignore it as a job hazard and get on with it,and maybe take some Garda advice to be more aware of what's going on around them.

Would we rather have our pleasant and approachable system,or do we want entire streets locked down as happens regularly in Rome,as some Italian minister's wife or mistress wants to go shopping in some fancy boutique for a few hours,and Romes already bad traffic becomes chaos for a few hours as the street is locked and patrolled by multiple and voluable Italian police forces?

I actually worked in those buildings on and off for a while and used to think how easy it would be for some lunatic(s) to launch some kind of an attack. There's usually one half asleep Garda, and then a couple of overweight ushers you have to get past to get into the halls of Leinster house. Any reasonably strong person could probably barge their way in while the house is sitting.

During a non-open day? No, the comparison isn't there. Jan 6 was crucially about the coup succeeding by halting an active and constitutionally prescribed session of congress to count the electors, thereby triggering a constitutional crisis when the session was unable to complete as prescribed in the constitution and at the given time and place. If you were in a transition of power ceremony I don't think Leinster House will be operating with a skeleton crew.

Dáil break-in teenager allegedly broke in two weeks before as phone pic clues emerge [and entered Iveagh House]

think I now who this was, he's expressed similar things in the past due to a disorder.

Because they were Trump's people 🙄

Also I guess the cops knew they were outgunned so they had to stop things from spiralling out of control (more than they did)

Aye that's true, the lad with the truck full of long guns parked nearby, and others like him presumably, would have been ready to hand those out if they had tried to enforce against the crowd.

BULLSHT!!! If this was an insurrection as claimed by the media,in a country with over half a billion KNOWN firearms, don't you think the "rebels" would have brought some more serious firepower than 13 arrested people facing firearms charges in DC? Not to mind they were members or known associates of a now known FBI false flag operation group called the proud boys? As for any Irish insurgents tking over the Dail...why bother,when you could just as easily build a DIY mortar our native "freedom fighters" have great experience of this as many of their designs can be found in Bagdad,Kabul, South Lebanon,and if a bunch of irate Padrigs could almost wipe out the Brit war Cabinet in Downing st during the Gulf war,with a bunch of converted Calor Gas bottles and a bit of Semtex.Why couldn't the same be done in Dyblin.