Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
RAIL SERVICES WERE suspended in both directions for a time this morning between Clonsilla in Dublin and Maynooth in Co Kildare as gardaí responded to a vandalism incident on the 5.40am service from Longford to Pearse.
A group of three men, believed to have been under the influence of drugs, were smashing windows and pulling the emergency cord on the train. Gardaí were called in as the trouble continued, and chased two of the men down the track.
According to Barry Kenny of Irish Rail, there would have been “around 200″ people on board this morning’s service.
“It’s a confined space, obviously. We’d like to apologise to everyone affected,” Kenny said.
The emergency cord was pulled several times by the men, Kenny said, explaining that the train eventually ended up a around 200 metres from Leixlip’s Louisa Bridge Station.
As the men continued to cause problems, the train driver put a call in to Irish Rail’s Central Control, who alerted gardaí.
Chase
However, as the officers arrived at the scene, two of the men prised open a door and fled down the tracks — pursued by the guards. They were eventually apprehended.
A third young man — who is not believed to have been directly involved in the vandalism — was allowed off the train in Leixlip. CCTV footage from the carriage will now be reviewed to determine the full extent off the offences committed.
The trains between Clonsilla and Maynooth were suspended as the chase down the tracks took place. The situation was resolved at around 8am.
Kenny said there had been some knock-on delays but that they were “easing relatively quickly”.
If the Irish Govt are giving you advice on anything Internet related then you really do have problems.
Especially seeing as the same government were still using Windows Xp despite it being discontinued, I think that particular failure cost the taxpayer €3.5 million.
“The Government is thinking” – I stopped reading after that silly line.
No doubt they’ll introduce an Internet tax to pay for it.
Just send all your usernames and passwords to the relevant department.
Don’t they have them already.
The government won’t be happy until they have full control of the Internet, way to free for them at the moment.
All those Facebook videos of guards beating people up and people saying they are sh!t on this site must do the powers that be heads in.
It’s driving the powers that be nuts that there is something they can’t control.
The Internet has aided in exposing corruption and tranny. But at the same time has given them a tool for spying and keeping tabs on the public.
A few lads I know have been caught out cross dressing on the internet….
Corruption and transsexuality go hand in hand in many governments
Should read :
“The Government Is Thinking Up New Ways To Hack You”
:)
You are okay there, government – I’ll control my own information, if you don’t mind.
The same government who helped setup Irish Water, a company which they gave carte blanche powers to violate every part of the data protection act to track every citizen and all of their personal information in this country, and even after spending €80 million on consultants still ended up sending bills to dead people now want to give us advice on how not to get our data stolen online? Oh the sweet irony.
Is €80mn the final Bill?
The sub text to this article is control , but let’s start small and the government is doing it to protect you .
“It’s a great place for free speech, and so that must be protected, but in a way that is acceptable in the eyes of reasonable people.”
Now…what other asshat pocket stuffing politician coined the ‘reasonable people’ phrase…….I take it the ‘reasonable people’ are only those who agree with the Government and everyone else are ‘unreasonable people’ even if they are in the majority.
There appears to be 2 terms missing in this article .. “Snowden” and “encryption security” .. Ignoring Snowden for a moment (people usually do btw) , the degrading of encryption protection from the “Five Eyes” network and their political masters/slaves is a major stumbling block to stopping “hackers” and “other agencies” from attacking electronic networks.
Encrypted emails services are now illegal in Spain, The UK, China, North Korea and this is gaining ground in many other countries.
Snowden advised that people have password phrases, otherwise their passwords could be easily hacked in seconds..
Snowden also talked of the security apparatus being designed for attack and not defence (because of backdoors and encryption busting techniques.
Point is that if the governments can do it so can any half trained computer technician..
Using the war on terror to degrade our human rights (ie privacy) is not a good excuse, in fact, it plays into the hands of the terrorists and sends a chilling effect to the rest of the population.
Google Stasi techniques and consequences in east germany. And then put the surveillance apparatus now in place in the mix. I Hope that we dont have the wrong people get into power.. that might be very scary.
And lastly .. In an age of such surveillance techniques, If Ireland was invaded it would take an enemy about 1 hour to have a list of all possible AND FUTUREthreats against them (the wonders of technology) and we have no protections..
Snowden worked for a private company with access to all you phone calls and emails going back years.. And your childrens for that matter..
Too late… lol.
have your say