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A BUS DRIVER in Derry has been lauded today for her role in stopping a bomb from detonating in the city last night.
A masked man, who described himself as new IRA, boarded her bus at about 6.15pm Wednesday, ordering it to be driven to Strand Road police station.
Defying the order, the woman evacuated the 10 passengers on board and drove to the nearest bus stop that was located outside the Ballymagroarty housing estate she had been driving through.
The vehicle was eventually stopped on Northland Road, a less populated area outside the city centre.
She notified police who tasked army technical officers to the scene. A number of homes in the area were evacuated and police confirmed the device was viable.
Residents returned to their properties at about 3.30am after the bomb was removed for further forensic examinations.
Transport Minister Danny Kennedy condemned the incident but praised the “immense courage” of the driver who faced a “frightening situation”.
“Attacks on public transport impact the entire community who depend on buses and trains to get to work, school, hospital and go about their daily business,” he added.
“Translink staff provide a vital service to thousands of people and they should be allowed to carry out their work without fear of threat or intimidation.“
“This selfless heroine put the lives of her passengers and people living around ahead of herself,” added SDLP councillor John Boyle.
“This latest incident in Derry was a source of real distress for the bus driver, passengers and people whose homes were evacuated on what was one of the coldest and blustery nights of the winter.
“Placing devices on public transport is disgraceful and entirely unacceptable. This Translink worker, who I understand is female, and the passengers were placed on the front line last night and I completely condemn this attack on local people.”
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness tweeted:
The courage of the bus driver who last night prevented a bomb attack on the Peace Process in Derry must be commended & the attack condemned.
Strand Road police station has been targeted by dissidents on previous occasions.
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Re 50 Shades
I’ve said it before I’ll say it again If I wanted to watch a poorly written movie with a cast of unknowns and badly acted, unrealistic sex scenes I just watch actual porn.
Do girl.
Haha, hypothetically speaking that is.
Down to with this sort of thing!
There’s people coming from gdansk to see the film!
Ah in fairness the people from Gdansk are probably here to collect the social welfare and going to the cinema to kill time before the flight home.
Looking forward to film version of Fionnuala O’Carroll-Kelly’s ‘Fifty Greys in Shades’
“Why go to the cinema to watch other people have sex? It’s perverted. If I go to the cinema I want to be entertained”
In the olden days couples were known to ‘do it’ on the floor in the back row of the balcony seats in the Leinster Cinema in Dolphins Barn, giving much entertainment to us young lads.
I’m looking forward to it actually, hope its in 3 D too
The sequel is already in production – 50 Shaves a Day starring Susan Boyle!
In the words of Family Guy’s Glen Quagmire: “Giggidy gigidy al…rite…”
”Why go to the cinema to watch other people have sex? It’s perverted. If I go to the cinema I want to be entertained.”
Guess what Mary? A hell of a lot of people find sex entertaining. And (you may need to sit down for this one) a very large percentage of the 100 million copies of FSOG sold were to women, as is the target audience for the film. That’s a lot of lady perverts. But the good news for you is Shaun The Sheep is on. The clean version.
I’ve s feeling film is going to gratuitous just for the sake of it.
More ebbing away of Ireland’s mortality
Gary seriously get a hobby for yourself. Sick of your comments on nearly every article.
Ireland’s morality has been eroded by the very people who were preaching it. An organisation that was rife with child molesters, paedophiles, people who would abuse physically, mentally and sexually and then get up on an altar and tell people how they live their lives. Sorry now but a film/book about sex is not going to destroy this country.
I think Gary Gary is from one of them groups that dress women up from head to toe to cover them up for morality reasons. Yet when they get home they 50 shades the women where people can’t see them or judge them. It’s the 21st century Gary Gary come into the light my friend.
Mortality btw is about death. Morality is about morals fyi..
Gary
I’m surprised you’re posting comments here, I though you’d be at Mass!
Pat the only problem with what you said there is that people i.e the clergy did those things. It never said in the bible to abuse children and I do think there needs to be a separation there. But yes a lot of bad people preached one thing and did another and as a result hurt the church, country and people. Not all but some.
We’ll said Pat
Sex is not evil, immoral or a negative, we are the most sexualised and social beings on this earth. The head of the human penis is shaped like so to plunge other semen out of the vagina, we think about and have Sex More than any other animal, our biology shows that sex was used to strengthen bonds, people that love an old book have made us feel guilty of these natural “immoral” urges, wish they’d get a grip and stop trying to legislate nonsense on other people, feel free to flagellate yourselves though.
Save yourself a tenner: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2322441/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl
Would you watch your sister in a porn movie skippy?
“Austerity in Ireland ended more than 12 months ago.” Good one, isn’t not the whole of the eurozone in austerity because it was aimed at the currency rather than countries and this led to countries being in worst austerity than the Euro. How can the Eurozone have a currency that is in austerity and the countries using it are not, I find that confusing?
Time to do away with the whip system in government ,I say!
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