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Stand down! That 'air raid siren' heard across Dublin was not the nuclear holocaust

Come out from under those desks.

RELAX. THERE IS no reason to believe that Dublin is about to be attacked in an air raid. There’s no sign of a nuclear meltdown either.

A loud siren heard all across the Dublin bay area had a lot of Dubliners spooked this morning, and some wondering if the end was nigh.

But, thankfully, it wasn’t the beginnings of World War III but just a drill at Dublin Port.

Dublin Port have confirmed that the siren was part of a Poolbeg evacuation drill.

Phew!

That news is sure to be a relief to all these people who feared for their lives when they heard it going off.

It’s okay, we can all come out now.

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    Mute catkins407
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    Oct 16th 2015, 10:34 AM

    It’s well known fact Irish people never react to alarms or sirens. Fire alarm going off In Penny’s? Yeah be grand pass me that top there till I go pay a fiver for it. No one even bats an eyelid apart from the foreigners who leg it out the door. I remember a fire alarm at work once as I was working away. I eventually looked up and me and the Irish guy were the only ones working away in the office. We stayed there too till the ceo came in bellowing at us to get out and what the f**k is wrong with Irish people lol

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    Mute Jake Race
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    Oct 16th 2015, 10:41 AM

    Perhaps they’d react quicker if the sign emitted the brown noise?

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    Mute Lily
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    Oct 16th 2015, 11:08 AM

    Reminds me of working as a hotel receptionist, all the Germans arrive down with their bags packed, the Irish still happy out drinking in the bar, slashing on the pool, or chillin out in their room.

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    Mute Bill Madden
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    Oct 16th 2015, 11:15 AM

    If you live in Israel you don’t ignore it, you have 30 SECONDS before a possible strike….count it … 30 seconds… hardly enough time to wipe your bum! and hit the ground!!

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    Mute Roy Dowling
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    Oct 16th 2015, 11:23 AM

    fire alarm went off in the local pub once, everyone sat there drinking, a q formed at the bar and the manager had to come back to tell us that there really was a fire upstairs…

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    Mute Vicko Aguilar
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    Oct 16th 2015, 11:35 AM

    U were working right

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    Mute Éamonn Mac Eochaidh
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    Oct 16th 2015, 12:11 PM

    If you live in Palestine, you don’t get a siren.

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    Mute Bill Madden
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    Oct 16th 2015, 12:17 PM

    @ Emaonn….or a shelter.

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    Mute Rita Shields
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    Oct 16th 2015, 12:34 PM

    I’m not surprised the Germans were legging it if the Irish were slashing on the pool! Haha

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    Mute Lily
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    Oct 16th 2015, 2:01 PM

    Lol,

    That was supposed to read ‘splashing in’

    Me and my fat thumbs…

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    Mute TrueBloodÉire
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    Oct 16th 2015, 3:37 PM

    6 gazillion tears are now being shed as well as a law suit underway because you mentioned the word “holocaust” out of it’s one and only appropriate context……..anti-semites

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    Mute Trevor Beale
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    Oct 16th 2015, 10:28 AM

    Is there actually anyone in Poolbeg to evacuate??

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    Mute Anton Friendo
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    Oct 16th 2015, 10:47 AM

    The Irish Army will probably put in a claim after that noise

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    Mute JustMade Ireland
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    Oct 16th 2015, 12:20 PM

    Pigeons and seagulls!

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    Mute Justin Devaney
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    Oct 16th 2015, 1:38 PM

    Ah Jesus I’m after taking my iodine tablets.

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    Mute Jamsey
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    Oct 16th 2015, 1:49 PM

    Justin, they’re so old at this stage you’ll be found out of your head running bollik naked around town in about 15 minutes.

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    Mute Brendan Hughes
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    Oct 16th 2015, 2:20 PM

    i hope not. they expired back in 2005

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    Mute Paul Furey
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    Oct 16th 2015, 4:38 PM

    Suffer from Radiation or expired Iodine tablet poisoning…………..choices!!!

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    Mute Cosmo Kramer
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    Oct 16th 2015, 10:37 AM

    I love the way a story is newsworthy just because of a few tweets… Five of six people tweet about something and all of a sudden it’s up on The Journal..

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    Mute Brian Ward
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    Oct 16th 2015, 10:32 AM

    Meanwhile in the rest of Ireland no one worries about an air raid siren as it’s just the fire brigade being called out.

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    Mute Brendan
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    Oct 16th 2015, 10:44 AM

    It’s hardly news reporting pulling quotes off twitter

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    Mute vv7k7Z3c
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    Oct 16th 2015, 10:50 AM

    No, but people on Twitter asking what it is and finding out for them is.

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Oct 16th 2015, 11:31 AM
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    Mute David Lynch
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    Oct 16th 2015, 1:35 PM

    Ronan, seen as you like answering questions for people, I don’t know what a tracker mortgage is?

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Oct 16th 2015, 5:02 PM

    A Caravan lol.

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    Mute Jason Culligan
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    Oct 16th 2015, 10:41 AM

    One of the first surprised I got when moving to the Netherlands was when the first test of the emergency sirens went off. Every first Monday of the month at noon, on the dot, emergency sirens in every town and city sound off to test and make sure they work. The intention is that when these sirens sound in a non-test scenario everyone in the country is supposed to immediately enter a safe zone and check the radio or TV for an indication of what’s happening and how to respond.

    I guess living in a country under sea level and with nukes pointed at it on a daily basis teaches you how to set up a proper emergency response system.

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    Mute Cosmo Kramer
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    Oct 16th 2015, 10:46 AM

    What nukes are pointed at Holland??

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    Mute Jake Race
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    Oct 16th 2015, 11:04 AM

    So if you want to pull and air raid on Holland’s @rse, you should do it on the first monday of the month at noon. Got it.

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    Mute Jason Culligan
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    Oct 16th 2015, 11:54 AM

    Russian nukes, previously Soviet. Rotterdam is of course the largest port in Europe and a key logistical point for NATO forces. The Dutch were also a key cornerstone in the defensive force for North-West Germany and a continued core contributor to NATO.

    Declassified Soviet documents actually gave a list of all targets for nuclear weapons strikes should a Cold War go hot. Even Ireland was on that list and not just the North.

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Oct 16th 2015, 5:03 PM
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    Oct 16th 2015, 10:53 AM

    The oil refinery in Cork notify people in the papers etc.before they test their siren.

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    Oct 16th 2015, 11:22 AM

    If only they’d notify people when they leaked oil. Hopefully it won;t happen on a weekend cos the people in the EPA don;t do weekends.

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    Mute Niamh Clancy
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    Oct 16th 2015, 11:42 AM

    in the words of Tommy tiernan—is that my phone? ? lol

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    Oct 16th 2015, 11:13 PM

    Sher if ya can’t see it it doesn’t f*kin exist!

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    Mute Darragh Ó Tuathail
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    Oct 16th 2015, 12:05 PM

    Ah serious these people need to get an absolute life….

    Plus Journal making a story out of a few tweets is lousy journalism….

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    Mute Stephen murphy
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    Oct 16th 2015, 1:16 PM

    Be careful, you might get blocked, or banned for saying that and what would you do without the Journal?

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    Mute Darragh Ó Tuathail
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    Oct 16th 2015, 2:02 PM

    Just look at it from another device and ip address

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    Mute Fiona Boland
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    Oct 16th 2015, 8:15 PM

    @stephen I fear to think that without the journal people would find themselves reading relevant news articles and educating themselves on current affairs, God forbid!

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    Mute Vladimir Vasyectomy
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    Oct 16th 2015, 10:30 AM

    There should be advance warning given to everyone within earshot of this. I would certainly freak out if I heard it, considering all the terrorism etc. going on at the moment.

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    Mute Jake Race
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    Oct 16th 2015, 10:37 AM

    I agree, there should be a pre-siren siren to warn people that the siren is coming. Hopefully that won’t startle people too because then we’d need a pre-siren siren siren to warn people about the pre-siren siren. After that it’s turtles all the way down.

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    Oct 16th 2015, 12:05 PM

    I wish the authors of those tweets had a daisy cutter dropped on their houses

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    Mute John Doyle
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    Oct 16th 2015, 11:18 AM

    There is siren that goes off almost every day on O’Connell street. Any idea what that one is?

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Oct 16th 2015, 11:21 AM

    The Siren must have been on Bull Island and got confused with her singing lol.

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    Oct 16th 2015, 11:27 AM
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    Oct 16th 2015, 11:20 AM

    They have gone Alois Irlmaier mad these days, expect WW3 and that will drum up more nonsense against Russia?
    Unless Isis wants to bring about Qiyamah, mad yokes they would love that or in other words if we can’t get what we want in murder and rape then we will bring the world to an end, now where is the nukes… Better getting rid of then asap by any method possible…

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    Mute Mick Jordan
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    Oct 16th 2015, 2:09 PM

    Michael. Remind us again who has been invading its neighbours (Moldova,Georgia Ukraine) again in the guise of “Little Green Men”.
    Life as Russian neighbour makes for nervous times.

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Oct 16th 2015, 5:10 PM

    U.S. seems to be invading Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, Vietnam and removed 50 South America governments since WW2… THEY HAVE PUT SADDAM HUSSEIN INTO POWER, TRAINED BIN LADEN, the CIA put Pol Pot into power, helped Pinochet…
    So where is Russia in Ukraine, the news shouts about it but no one has done anything about it as if it was true then wouldn’t they be attacked, NATO was in Ukraine training Ukraine soldiers how to use old soviet BUKS as was and is the SAS.
    Is Moldova or Georgia Russian???
    Life as Russian neighbour makes for nervous times but that was NATO who created that?

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    Oct 16th 2015, 5:24 PM
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