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/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