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DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL is conducting a risk analysis of the capital to examine if physical barriers are needed to prevent terror attacks.
The council’s confirmation that meetings have taken place with An Garda Síochána comes after 14 people died in terrorist attacks in Spain which used a van and a car.
Vehicles have also been used in attacks on Nice, London and Stockholm.
Fears had been raised that Ireland’s major urban centres like Dublin’s pedestrianised Grafton Street could be targeted in an attack.
A spokesperson for Dublin City Council confirmed to TheJournal.ie that an assessment of the capital was underway to ascertain the need for barriers or bollards.
Meetings have taken place between Dublin City Council and An Garda Siochana on this issue and a risk analysis of areas in the city centre is being undertaken to determine where any additional measures may be needed and the type and nature of any required interventions.
However, Ciarán Cuffe – Green Party councillor and chair of the Transportation Strategic Policy Committee for DCC says that the physical barriers may be a “bottomless pit” of money.
I don’t think putting up bollards is the best solution for it. You cannot protect every pedestrian. If you started putting bollards up, where would you stop? It would be a bottomless pit. You’d have some put up on Grafton and Henry Street. Where would you go from there?
“I think that money is better spent on integrating people who move to Ireland.”
Not likely
A spokesperson for the gardaí said that an attack was possible, but not likely.
An Garda Síochána is currently liaising closely with our security and law enforcement partners in Spain and at international level to share and assess any relevant intelligence and its potential impact on this jurisdiction.
“The threat level in this jurisdiction remains unchanged where an attack is possible but not likely. The level of threat remains under constant review by An Garda Síochána.
The public should be reassured that An Garda Síochána is committed to ensuring that the security of the state and our public areas remains a policing and security service priority.
“As a matter of course, we remind the public to remain vigilant and to immediately report any suspicious activity to An Garda Síochána.”
A Department of Justice spokesperson said that Ireland, like any other democratic country with similar values, is not immune to the threat from international terrorism.
They reiterated that the expert assessment is that while an attack on Ireland is possible it is unlikely and there is no specific information in relation to a threat to Ireland.
“The gardaí have in place appropriate operational measures in terms of intelligence, a well-trained and equipped special intervention capability and other national support resources.
While there is a small number of persons here whose activities in support of violent extremism give cause for concern, they are monitored closely by the authorities and any appropriate action is taken.
“The Garda authorities, supported by the Defence Forces and in conjunction with other emergency services and local authorities have also put in place detailed preparations in the event of an attack. Of its nature, much of this work cannot be disclosed publicly, but it goes on continuously.”
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Shameful waste of tax payers money this government has to go
Deplorable. No wonder the country’s policies are backwards
@GooseSkipGoose: Asylum doesn’t work, you suppose to seek asylum in the first safe country you reach, However most transit through EU countries to get here.
@The long walk home☘️: Bertie Ahern brought that in in the Dublin Treaty, people didn’t realise then how things would work out. It’s definitely a no go under the current climate for the Country’s around the Mediterranean that’s why it’s happening.
country is a joke look after your own
@Mark Campbell: so we shouldn’t accept any asylum seekers? Any immigrants of any kind?
@GrahamMManning: and of course require our own to return from all over the world to settle back here in Ireland where we can take good care of them.
@Gavin Conran: perhaps even their descendants?
State needs to sort itself out, put more resources to dealing with these cases. Provide some timely interventions to either send these people home or to provide them with asylum here and help integrate them. Throwing money away in this, in a week, how much could be saved on dealing with cases! Or maybe I should buy a guest house and get pally with Chazza and his pals in the dept!
@ThatLJD: give em a pps number and a job let them live like everyone else and pay their way
@Eamonn Roche: Great but where will they live?
@Eamonn Roche: So do away with our visa system entirely and allow anyone who wants to come to Ireland to do so as long as they work? The only legal basis for asylum seekers to be in Ireland is for the determination of their claim for asylum. The top two claimants are two non-E.U. European states, Albania and Georgia. They have a 99% and 97% rejection rate respectively. The next two claimants are Zimbabwe and Nigeria with an 82% and 94% rejection rates. They should all be fast tracked.
The DP system is the best system to accommodate asylum seekers providing the initial claims are processed within a six to nine month time scale. It should be much faster than that for the top four claimant counties. The issues are decision times, asylum shopping and economic migrants making bogus claims.
So wrong in so many ways
Ya while our own are dying on the streets daily young homeless family’s kids aswell living in tents if there lucky while Leo & co give themselves a pay rise. charity stops at home im afraid this country is F#ked and no im not racist snowflakes !!
@United Ireland: ignoring the spelling and sentence structure. No our own aren’t “dying on the streets daily”, no one is lucky to live in a tent, if charity stopped at home no one would help the people you’re describing, in some areas fair nuff we are f’ed and if you have to deny being something guess what you might be?
@GrahamMManning: Im denying that Im blind, does that mean I might be blind? See how your argument about racism falls short? I never understood that logic. Denying doesnt equate to being.
@Dom: it means you might be. Doesn’t mean you are. It’d be an odd thing to bring up if you weren’t though, wouldn’t it?
@GrahamMManning: I suppose that argument can be applied to anything. Anything said out of context can be odd. It would certainly be unnatural for me to bring it up but in this case, it fits the context. Just like United Ireland’s comment fits the context. Its also relevant and justified given how people can get so quickly bent out of shape. Anyway, just my input, it all comes down to maybes and woulds and coulds.
@Dom: yup fair nuff. Does seem to be mentioned more often than not by posters whose comments could be interpreted as racist and rarely by those whose comments couldn’t?
We really need to deport the fraudsters, every bogus asylum seeker is taking the place of a genuine one.
The few genuine asylum seekers shoulsd be allowed to
We really need to deport the fraudsters, every bogus asylum seeker is taking the place of a genuine one.
€462,046 does not average out at 18 million, your 6million short on your maths. €24,026,392 a year
@Ali Ní Dhomhnaill: till September sorry too tired
@Ali Ní Dhomhnaill: lol I’d be so embarrassed omg
How many times would that get Joyce from Zurich to Dublin and back.
@Keelan O’neill: hmmm…sure he wants to come back?
“Look after our own” is very thinly veiled racism. Look closely and you will see that most decent people don’t subscribe to such apathy.
@Freezepeach: Ur profile pic is racism im calling the guard’s
@United Ireland: need help dialing the number cos you sure do when typing?
@GrahamMManning: hamMmannning go hug a tree for urself or maybe wash Ur hair & get a job living on handouts all Ur live aswell I bet
@United Ireland: such cutting insults, how will my fragile ego not crumble? Bald as a cue ball and gainfully employee as a teacher. What do u do kid?
@GrahamMManning: employed.
@United Ireland: If you change the word more to no then that’s racism.
@GrahamMManning: yawn, what a predictable narrow minded comment
@GooseSkipGoose: care to articulate how, maybe even offer some substantive input yourself?
Scammers !
@ken gray: all of em yeah?
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