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Updated at 22.46pm
DUBLIN FIRE BRIGADE has dealt with well over a hundred call outs today as units across the city contend with a large number of blazes as a result of Halloween.
On what is always one of the busiest days of the year for the force, fire officers have been dealing with bonfires, domestic fires as well as other Halloween-related incidents.
Between 9am and 5pm today, DFB responded to 59 fire calls. Since then, there have been numerous reported incidents, including bonfires, fire from fireworks, car fires, pallets on fire as well as domestic fires and others.
Units from North Strand Station were called out earlier this evening to a large fire at a bonfire complex.
Units from Swords and Skerries extinguished a fire off the M1 near Lusk.
There are numerous other incident spread out across the city, including in Finglas, Ballymun, Rathfarnham and many other areas.
Commenting on the fires, Fine Gael TD for Dublin North West Noel Rock said that he had never received as many complaints from people around the number of incidents as this year.
“Quite clear that between that gardaí and teh council something has gone wrong this year in relation to the deterrence of using illegal fireworks and bangers,” he said.
“I’ve never had as many complaints in any year as I have tonight in relation to fireworks, bangers, antisocial behaviour and dumped materials.
Even fire brigade officials have confirmed to me that this is already a busier year in their experience that any of the last five.
For the first time, DFB has a live interactive Google Map to track all Halloween-related incidents reported to 999 today.
DFB say that all reported fires will be assessed, but “not necessarily extinguished if they do not represent a danger to life or property”.
The map shows that DFB responded to three car fires in both Ballymun and Coolock respectively.
Firefighters responded to a fire at a playground in Baldoyle.
Meanwhile, units from Dolphin’s Barn station attended a large bonfire in the Crumlin area earlier today.
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Most other incidents scattered around north and south Dublin include bonfires, park fires, pallets on fire and trees on fire.
Between Monday and Saturday last week, DFB attended the scene of 126 Halloween-related fires in Dublin.
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Dublin Fire Brigade asked people to remain safe tonight, with Dublin City Council putting on a number of events.
The Minister for the Environment Denis Naughton earlier told the public that bonfires are illegal under waste legislation. The law states that it is an offence to dispose of waste by uncontrolled or unregulated burning.
“The reality is that some people will be determined to engage in Halloween bonfires in our public spaces and on our waste-ground in communities with potentially devastating safety, health and environmental effects,” Naughton said.
I am appealing to the public to think about the consequences of starting bonfires, not just from a public safety and legal perspective, but on an environmental and health grounds as well.
“The burning of tyres, particularly, has detrimental health and environmental effects, not just those standing close to these fires but for the wider community as fumes travel and for emergency services personnel that will have to respond,” he said.
People are advised to keep pets indoors and respect emergency services as they do their jobs.
With reporting from Cormac Fitzgerald
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Would you like to dance ?
No.
Sorry I think you misheard me I said your arse looks fat in that dress……….
Irish women know that most Irish men are lacking somewhat when it comes to pleasing them so they have to be more picky.
From the man’s point – its the female’s apparent hatred of hygiene. Wearing purple and pink – and thinking that Bono is cool.
And saying – I have to be up for mass tomorrow……
@Will. I’m not inclined to believe anybody that especially the hygiene bit…
Hi show us your tits.
Any of…
You are such a troll
Had a woman tell me one night, in coppers no less ” get away outta that there’s a smell of bengy off ye” that was about 15 years ago and I still have no idea what bengy is… It was Lynx Africa I told her!!
Benjy was a character in The Riordans, they were farmers, just in case you are serious.
This was a Zig and Zag joke for years. It’s a reference to Benjy from the Riordans many years ago.
GET IN THE VAN NOW! usually works
I’m Jimmy Saville works as good as that?
Can’t beat the chase of the Irish girls … the rejection. Great craic!
There are lines other than “will ya meet me mate over there?”?? huh…
I’ve lived in a few countries and Dublin women are definitely the most obnoxious and stuck up. I’ve seen a lot of my mates (no they weren’t hammered) get laughed at/told to p off by groups of very average looking women when they could have had a bit of banter or politely decline.
Thankfully I’ve never suffered it myself as I’m deadly looking but Dublin girls really need to up their game. Poland and Czech Republic have the hottest and least up themselves women. Great combo.
I love Irish men, once I get chatting to them that is, but in a nightclub Irish men can be aggressive messes (drunk, leering and just grab you) and at this point you just want to get away!
Honestly some nights the only thing you want to do is chat to your mates, have a few drinks and dance without anyone bothering you.
Also no one has brought this up but groping? How many women have been groped simply as a come on as they move through a night club or the dance floor? Not so much in Dublin but down the country! New Years Eve in Carlow was traumatic.
Headed out sat night, need to find my stick. I’ll be beating them off all night
They will probably have their own sticks……and dogs :)
My favourite chat-up line is Jimmy Carr’s “can you hold my pint while I go for a sh!t” or “here, does this rag smell like Rohypnol?”
Do you grass?
No!
Your the first cow I met that doesn’t
No woman likes a man who is hammered off his face. …. and they tend to be just that on a night out. Most chat up lines are either immensely cheesy, which is a pukefest, or immenseley vulgar… same outcome! If a guy stayed half sober I imagine he’d get a lot further :)
That may just be the ones I have come across, of course :)
Two simple steps to make sure you are never ever rejected by Mrs Shalakalananaka-
1. Ask the DJ to put on YMCA
2. Stand in front of her and dance to the whole song
Alternatively, be Benedict Cumberbatch, but my 2 step programme works as well too.
Will ya have a dance?
WHA?
Sorry, I think you misheard. I said you look fat in those pants.
Al, beat you too it ;)
You remind me of a movie star…..Mickey Rooney
Ask me sister I’m sweatin
You hav to do the Carlton from fresh prince, approach them like.. haaaaayyy..!! Then do the shuffle..
Jerseys and bad breath,no thanks
And that’s just the women…
Would you like to marry me?
I’d rather have a frontal lobotomy, a week in Cork – and three of my arms severed by a werewolf from Balinrobe….,…
Nothing has changed since the 60′s so!
Any women who spend the first 17-18 years of their lives in a convent are bound to hold certain prejudices. But because it’s so common in Ireland it’s often overlooked.
That’s a very 20th century point of view.
I’d always be up for a bit of banter because some guys can be very funny with their chat up lines. There was an awkward moment where a guy sidled up and attempted flirtation while the husband was standing beside me. We all had a laugh about it and chatted throughout the night. If a guy chances his arm and keeps it respectful, don’t tell him to F off, take it as a compliment and if you’re not interested don’t be a cow about it. I don’t like when a guy gets aggressive or messy and then threatening and abusive when you decline his sweaty, groping advances.
Your eyes are like spanners love, every time I look into them they tighten my nuts…..
Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?
Rohypnol you mean?
This site seems to really hate any form humour??? But they seem to back the clowns in government without knowing “taylor rules” within the E.U. structure for here?
Does this skirt make me look fat, no dear it is just the fat?
In ireland its always the pub,if you see a woman you like on wednesday at the petrol pumps ask her out,women arent always in the pub to meet men,they go out sometimes to just dance and dont want a man
“Me friend wants to know will you go with me” ah the innocence!
Because they are rotten with drink or have small wallets lol.
Eat grass
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