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A SECTION OF a busy North Dublin road was sealed off by Gardaí this morning after a “blood-like substance” was discovered by a cafe manager.
The manager of The Station Cafe on the Lower Drumcondra Road discovered what appeared to be a large puddle of blood outside the front door of the premises when he arrived at around 7.40am this morning.
Gardaí received a call from the manager reporting the incident shortly after the discovery was made.
“I got here around 7.40am this morning and I saw blood all on the outside of the door and floor,” the manager told TheJournal.ie.
“I called the police straight away and they arrived very quickly. They closed off the area and they took some photos,” he said.
The area was sealed off for a short time for a technical examination, according to gardaí.
“I think it happened early this morning because the blood stain was very, very bad and it was not dry. It definitely happened this morning, I think,” the manager said.
“I don’t have CCTV footage but my neighbours have.”
TheJournal.ie understands that it remains unclear whether the substance was in fact real blood.
No reports have been made to Gardaí of any incidents in the area today.
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Sandy sounds increasingly like my wife when she’s on the warpath!
It must get very windy in your house, does she blow hot or cold air?
Dept of Foreign Affairs is kind of late to the party with that advice. The east coast airports are closed. People couldn’t travel even of they wanted to.
The first paragraph does not make sense because you won’t be able to travel to the US. All flights are cancelled to the north east.
To be fair, the advice is also intended for people who aren’t necessarily travelling directly from Ireland.
Gavan, true but you can’t travel without the plane.
No, but like I said, if you’re not currently in Ireland and happened to be, say, elsewhere in the USA, perhaps you were intending to drive to the north-east?
People need to be told this? Anyone likely to look to see probably already has a fair idea of what’s going on there,
You’d be surprised (maybe not) at the stupidity of some people still.
Some still have to be told these things sadly.
Like the America packets of peanuts that has on the packets “Warning: Contains nuts” Loads of similar examples available).
Silly to state these things but sadly have to still be done because people can be stupid.
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