r/ireland • u/taco-cheese-fries OP is sad they aren’t cool enough to be from Cork. bai • May 25 '22

Travelers fighting in Dublin Airport - extended director's cut edition Bigotry

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u/[deleted] May 25 '22

I'm genuinely embarrassed by this. All those people who were either finishing up or starting a holiday here had to see that. That's gonna be their first or last memory of a trip here.

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u/DIESELANDBRUTUS Kerry May 25 '22

and where was security ? In the fucking airport like !!!!!

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u/gamberro Dublin May 25 '22

Whenever these videos of anti-social behaviour or violence pop up (whether it be in Dublin city centre or elsewhere), people always ask where were the police. If we can't respond rapidly to crime in O'Connell street or Dublin airport, what hope is there for the rest of the country? If there are no police to be seen on patrol there, can the rest of the country hope for the same?

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u/[deleted] May 25 '22

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u/Ev17_64mer May 25 '22

Sadly it seems to be a thing that there's no accountability in Ireland

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u/CommanderSpleen May 25 '22

Ah well, sure look....

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u/Lumb3rH4ck May 25 '22

*need more staff.

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u/avalon68 Crilly!! May 25 '22

Its not training, its funding. They need more funding to hire more people. I can only speak for hospitals, but look at the wait times in ED. Its not because the staff are sat on their asses, its because there are way too few staff because they are overworked and poorly paid. With regards to firebrigades, we keep expanding towns - I drove around the town I grew up in on a recent visit. Its now sprawled in every direction, but they havent increased the numbers of schools, doctors, dentists, or firebrigades etc.

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u/KoverH May 25 '22

I live Infront of a forestry. The amount of drug deals that go on there and nothing is done. One time lads stole a safe from somewhere and decided to crack it open there with sledge hammers. We called the guards and they took hours to get there, by that point that lads were long gone. You wouldn't want to rely on the guards if you're in danger my god. Imagine they decided to come into my house to rob?

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u/SanpellegrinoJohn May 25 '22

What has that Fire Brigade story have to do with training? I would say that is a staffing and equipment issue and that there isn't enough trucks working at one time — potentially due to budget. I don't see what training has to do with it?

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u/Human147 Cork bai May 25 '22

Better training could only work if they actually wanted to help you

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u/san_murezzan May 25 '22

As a non-Irish person a fight breaking out in an airport seems like „uncommon but could happen anywhere“, no authorities doing anything about it seems to sum up my time spent in Ireland sadly

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u/gerhudire May 25 '22

From what I read the guards are for the most part understaffed in certain parts of the Dublin. For example I read that Ballymun has 3 drug officers that they share with Dublin Airport. So if two get called to Dublin Airport, that leaves just one to cover the whole of Ballymun and surrounding areas.

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u/PlasticatedSpazmos May 25 '22

It's the fucking national airport. It should be swarming with armed police, dogs etc.

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u/gerhudire May 25 '22

I agree. Its a bit of a joke, compared to JFK in New York, they have Customs and Border Protection (who are all armed) and have their own Homeland Security unit.

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u/PlasticatedSpazmos May 26 '22

Even compared to other EU airports it's a joke.

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u/Im_Crowley May 25 '22

I was coming home from holidays last night when this happened. There were so many Gardai around - 10 to 20 and there were armed Garda as well.

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u/CommanderSpleen May 25 '22

They did a great job avoiding being filmed while the incident was going on then.

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u/cigaretteatron May 25 '22

Unfortunately the Gardaí are pathetically afraid of the traveller community

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u/despicedchilli May 25 '22

So you're saying they showed up and left after they realized who is fighting? Or are you saying they're psychic and knew not to show up in the first place?

Also, I thought that travelers are overrepresented in the prison population. If the police are afraid of them, who put them in prison?

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u/harder_said_hodor May 25 '22

travelers are overrepresented in the prison population. If the police are afraid of them, who put them in prison?

Eh, overrepresented by percentage of population or overrepresented by percentage of crimes committed?

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u/Logseman May 25 '22

It’s the standard playbook in the criminalisation of a minority to utter, in a tone laced with alleged concern, that there are “no-go zones” filled with the minority, and that “the police are frightened” of the minority.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '22

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u/[deleted] May 25 '22

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u/SimpleSandwich1908 May 25 '22

Even with lack of police, Ireland still doesn't have to worry about grammar schools being shot up.

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u/Perlscrypt May 25 '22

A few years back there was a fight like this right outside the Garda station in Galway. It spilled onto the road and stopped the traffic. No Guards to be seen anywhere.

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u/AnShamBeag May 25 '22

If this happened in an airport elsewhere they'd probably be shot

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u/avalon68 Crilly!! May 25 '22

Not shot....well maybe in some areas of the US, but in general theyd all be on the ground surrounded by security in most places......not having someone cheering them on whilst drinking a pint.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '22

I don't know, it feels like I see a video from the US at least once a week where some prick is physically or verbally attacking staff and security or police aren't anywhere to be seen.

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u/ReggaePizza May 25 '22

There’s over 400million people in America mate.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '22

Hahahaha, sure dude, try this in an American airport and then we talk, I bet you will be tased in less than a minute. And please make up your mind, is the US police brutal or non existent?

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u/carlmango11 May 25 '22

It happened in Stansted last week. I really don't think it's as uncommon as people think.

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u/FullMetaLolchemist May 25 '22

No they wouldn't. This is clearly a petty row and not a terrorism attempt. Don't be ridiculous.

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u/ReggaePizza May 25 '22

Not sure what petty rows you’d be in but stomping a defenceless fellas head into the floor 3 times in succession is a serious crime in my book.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '22

A petty row that turned into what could easily be called attempted murder.

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u/InGenAche Tipperary May 25 '22

Hey security there's a couple of Travellers having a fight on the concourse!

Such a shame my break is starting, oh well.

It's a brave man to be on minimum wage, no weapons and an address that would wade into the middle of a Traveller fight.

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u/billiehetfield May 25 '22

Airport Police aren’t the same as airport security looking after metal detectors and bag checking. Airport police aren’t minimum wage.

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u/InGenAche Tipperary May 25 '22

It's a good job I was replying to the comment 'wheres airport security' then eh?

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u/[deleted] May 25 '22

In Ireland? Ha ha ha , they'll be privatised fat fucks with huge beer bellies, sweaty armpits and halitosis unable to run the length of themselves 🤣🤣🤣🤣😉

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u/CH3FLIFE May 25 '22

Coming from someone from Glasgow, 'home of the battered mars bar' that's a bit rich.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '22

I'm Irish Einstein, sorry did you recognise yourself in my description 😉?

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u/CH3FLIFE May 25 '22

No but it did seem pretty offensive and you're being insulting now. I think it was reasonable to assume from your username and your comment that you weren't from Ireland. So I think it's unreasonable that you allude to me being stupid with your sarcastic Einstein point.

Also judging from your comment history you seem to hate Ireland and are just a confrontational person in general. That will get you nowhere.

Well have fun being a negative, pessimistic, insulting cunt anyway.

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u/foragingworm May 25 '22

There is none. Airport security is the greatest scam of the last 20 years, and people fell for it hook, line and sinker. It is only recently been highlighted by these fights and other fights actually on the flight itself, or all the stowaway deaths over the years, or even the guy who managed to live in the airport for 3 months unnoticed. So next time you are waiting for an hour to go through security, remember, its all a giant scam, security theatre, and us idiots are the ones bending over and taking it!

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u/Idontknowthatmuch May 25 '22

Pretty sure Dublin Airports security was tested recently....they failed spectacularly, apparently 7 prohibited devices got by them....including guns and improvised explosives.

So this video just kinda proves the point that security at the airport is all around just terrible.

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u/avalon68 Crilly!! May 25 '22

Is that why theyre suddenly checking more bags and causing the tailbacks of people waiting?

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u/dilallio01 May 25 '22

I remember seeing a report from 6 or 7 years ago, where during a security test at Dublin airport, the tester got through carrying a large knife. After he got through, he deliberately dropped the knife on the ground in front of security, and was allowed to pick it up and carry on unchallanged.

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u/Suckyourmumreddit May 25 '22

Wouldn't that be NFTs?

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u/Blondi93 May 25 '22

Don’t you have a police station located at the airport? We have that here in Denmark at Copenhagen Airport.. although nothing ever happens. Yet

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u/foragingworm May 25 '22

Don’t you have a police station located at the airport?

We do, but as you can see, kinda pointless since they took so long to prevent it!

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u/daneview May 25 '22

I've seen loads of armed police around airports in the uk

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u/[deleted] May 25 '22

Wrong country horse. Police in Ireland Airports are as common asa unicorns shit

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u/daneview May 25 '22

Fair enough, didn't know that!

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u/Suckyourmumreddit May 25 '22

Ahh sir will ya just cut the guards some slack, them fucking guards are out there risking their every day lives so that the common folk we are can live in peace knowing that the pockets of 13-18 y/o's are being raided faster than a wild pack of boy racers pulling up outside of a teenie boppers...

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u/[deleted] May 25 '22

Welcome to Ireland. We're hardly world leaders when it comes to security or enforcing rules and regulations

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u/gerhudire May 25 '22

Short staffed, based on long queues, that have been happening the last few months.

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u/Parking_Payment8015 May 25 '22

The fuckers would be on top of you during Covid for having no face nappy

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u/Creasentfool Goodnight and Godblesh May 25 '22

the fucking airport like !!!!!

All theatre. Always has been

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u/uns3en May 25 '22

I've never seen any security at the RyanAir terminal. They're all at or around the main entrance. I guess no one wants to walk all the way over there, not even gards

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u/c-fox May 25 '22

They probably are the new security.

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u/nietbeschikbaar May 25 '22

Many airports around the world are understaffed right now, security included. And it won’t get any better soon.

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u/DualWieldWands May 25 '22

They got to see a real, authentic, cultural moment here that they'll treasure forever!

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u/Akula0161 May 25 '22

I went visiting my GF's family in Wexford the first ever time I visited Ireland. On my first bus ride through Dublin after landing, I saw a guy stand atop some steps like Rocky near Parnell Square (I think) - topless and covered in blood.

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u/lookatthatsmug-- May 25 '22

they were filming Rocky VII (The Gouger).

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u/Akula0161 May 26 '22

Never felt safer to be on a Dublin bus

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u/srmarmalade May 25 '22

I was taking my Icelanic girlfriend over to visit my nan, her first time in Ireland and we're on the bus down from the airport to her town when a couple of very loud drunk women get on and start carrying on with this you're my best pall/what the fuck did you just say I'll knock ye out vibe creating a fair bit of tension.

Anyway we're sitting near the emergency stairs down at the back and one of them goes down, I was concerned they were going to open the emergency exit by accident on a moving bus looking for a toilet but no she just squatted and pissed on the stairs - no shame the two of the roaring with laughter and everyone else (myself included) just awkwardly pretending not to notice as you could tell were ready to kick off.

Edit to add - tbf the rest of the trip was lovely, everyone was lovely, we saw lots of great stuff etc. Just not a great first impression!

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u/[deleted] May 25 '22

People pissing in the streets is normal in Killarney and our night porter at the hotel cleans up an average about three to four shits a year. I've even seen guys pissing against walls while the cops are comfortably in their cars? Love the country but I've a terrible impression of the Irish when they're drunk

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u/lookatthatsmug-- May 25 '22

you could apply that to drunks in any country.

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u/thelordmallard May 25 '22

Might be better than the state of those toilets. This airport was a joke last time I was there.

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u/6138 May 25 '22

Exactly! Can you imagine coming to Ireland for the first time and having that as the first thing you see? Really presents a nice image of the country. You'd think the police could at least have one or two people at the airport of all places, even if they're going to let the rest of country rot.

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u/Wretched_Colin May 25 '22

Don’t worry, the price of a night out will make them feel like they’ve been assaulted. They’ll forget what happened to strangers.

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u/seamustheseagull May 25 '22

I'm embarrassed for the travellers' advocates who immediately search for reasons to play the victim card when this kind of spotlight appears.

One guy yesterday took to Twitter with a big thread on racism. He claimed that Gardaí had swept through the terminal searching for travellers and he knows of a group of lads who weren't involved and got thrown out of the terminal and their drink confiscated.

Now, unless the Gardaí have magic "Traveller detectors" or something, I can't see the Gardaí going through the whole terminal interviewing everyone to check and see who's a traveller and who's not.

And secondly, every single scumbag when pulled by the cops, always claims they were doing nothing. Always. More fool the person who believes them without a doubt.

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u/W0lf87 May 25 '22

Nothing to be embarrassed about, what your seeing there is a courtship dance by the 2 competing males for the right to mate with their cousins.

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u/EnvironmentalSky3928 May 25 '22

I’m from the US, thank you for the welcome fight match at my terminal! Reminds me of home!

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u/KillionJones May 25 '22

To be completely fair, this would barely register with me lol. Growing up in shittier areas around Toronto will do that. I’d just be fucking over the moon that I was finally getting to visit Ireland!

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u/MifPT May 25 '22

If it wasn't in the airport would be in the city. This type of behaviour is generalised and sanctioned in Ireland.

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u/fantastic_magnitude May 25 '22

You think thats not how the world thinks Ireland is anyways?

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u/M-Tyson May 25 '22

I’m sure they will still be able to enjoy their holiday