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Updated 2.45 pm
THE ARMY BOMB disposal team have ruled out any threat after a a suspicious package was delivered to the offices of LGBT advocacy group GLEN this morning.
Emergency services were deployed to the scene on Upper Exchange Street in Dublin’s city centre with crew donning hazmat suits before entering the building.
It is understood the package was opened and blue powder was found inside, along with a one-word note which read ‘Goodbye’. It is thought the letter was personally delivered as there was no stamp.
The group indicated on Twitter that the substance was tested and is not toxic.
“The intent was to terrorise – no matter what was in the envelope,” Tiernan Brady of GLEN told TheJournal.ie.
“We’ve never had this before and the goal was to scare us and inflict terror.”
Gardaí, Dublin Fire Brigade and an army bomb disposal at the scene earlier. The Defence Forces have confirmed that the package was a hoax. A bomb disposal team arrived on scene at 1.15pm and left nearly two hours later.
With reporting from Paul Hosford and Rónán Duffy.
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Seriously some people really don’t have anything better to do with their time.
Hope they catch the freak.
Some real weirdos out there alright…
They should return a package of pink powder to sender.
Or a picture of two men engaged in sexual activity. That would kill him! :)
And sealed with a big glittery kiss :)
Those fcuking smurfs have a lot to answer for………
Goodbye impotence, hello powdered viagra.
Who ever this was when caught fk them out of the country to the country they want to live in. All well and good not agreeing with it but to threaten people and scare them is evil! Religious figures better come out and condemn this!
Lol
What has this to do with religion or religious figures? It’s a box with blue powder and a one word note nothing to indicate it has anything to do with religion or even the recent referendum but don’t let that stop you leaping to conclusions.
Scary stuff!
Let’s just hope it’s holy water….
There’s only one thing as bad a homophobia and thats religious bigotry……
They should take half and if it’s any good take the rest of it.
What religious bigotry? Holy water would be something harmless the likes of Iona could send.
You’re starting to sound like them “follow me or else…” Brigade
Could it be the blue rinse brigade?
I wonder if it was a no campaigner not taking their loss too well
Ya think?
Probably, but I’d say it’s nothing more than plain flour. Self raising would be a bit of a stretch.
Why is it blue if its flour?
I think this is going to be a more common thing, I really think the no voters are going to get even more aggressive with their anti-gay actions, this is just the beginning, more needs to be done to stop them.
Blue food colouring. Nobody noticed my epically bad pun….sigh
Washing powder most likely.
I think they did Ailbhe. *cough*
Failed bread pin?
Dough!
I don’t get it.
No chance of it being a Yes voter trying to drum up some more interest in their agendas???? I mean, the hype has died down recently……
What agenda John? Equality was our agenda
You know. Alibhe, the secret “Gay Agenda” so secret that every (and it seems only) homophobic weirdos and religious nuts know about it.
The one where… eah… eah…
I wouldn’t mind if every gay person got glitter rainbow shoes. Can that be our new agenda?
This is why our marriage would never work.
Because you have NO taste. Pfft
to produce rainbow cupcakes, is my agenda
@Albhe. I did, very good.
a priest in a birthday cake…
Between the idioy Twomey lying awake at night rerunning the MarRef campaign in his head, weedle dee and tweedle dum’s adventure to the high court and carry on like this it seems that the backward homophobic losers aren’t taking their comprehensive rejection their hateful nonsense all that well.
Bless ‘em.
The only thing which could have made winning even better is winning over such poor losers. They truly are the gift which keeps in giving.
Lucky it didn’t have a note with bang on it or someone could’ve really been hurt .
Three fire brigades, garda, army bomb disposal unit….am I the only one that finds the response a little bit over the top?
???
It was potentially a bomb in a densely populated area. Not the sharpest Beano are ya?
Blue powder classifies as a bomb these days?
Must get the bomb squad out to have at my non-bio powder then
You couldn’t take a chance on it Beano, I know the Irish thing to do would be to poke it with stick and if it doesn’t go bang it’ll be grand. Safety regulations are such a pain in the ar€e.
Have you ever heard of Semtex, Beano? Used to be a lot of scares involving powder on this island.
beano.. army are trained to deal with powder, gardai cordon off area and fire brigade are present to treat any potential victims and assist in decontamination etc.. it’s very straight forward ;-) ..
Perhaps…..call me naive but I wouldn’t of thought that religious, die-hard ‘No’ voters are renowned for their chemical weapon expertise
Gays are notoriously melodramatic.
Semtex is a plastic explosive .
Semtex – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › title=Semtex
Semtex is a general-purpose plastic explosive containing RDX and PETN. It is used in commercial blasting, demolition, …
Composition – History – Notes – References
And of those in charge had,like you did Beano, guessed the source and threat level and been wrong what would have happened?
E. O’Leary please try not to act like such an ass over this.
I wonder if this was sent to Irish Water or FG/Labour offices how many people would be moaning about such a waste of resources.
About the same amount of people moaning here.
@mick our northern cousins know all about Semtex h, it’s very powerful explosive material, used to be manufactured in Czechhoslovakia when it was a communist country, it caused havoc up north especially in the 1980s when the paramilitarys got hold of it, a lot of people killed up there from from Semtex bombs
Beano, you really need to stop digging. The emergency services can’t afford to take any credible threat lightly and have to respond appropriately which is why hoaxing such as this is taken so seriously as it’creates a massive waste of resources and dilutes the effectiveness of the response of the emergency services should a real emergency happen while they are responding to what turns out to be a hoax.
@Shane Kilcoyne – over 30000 people attended the Pride March in Dublin last year. I would be amazed if even 200 of the participants were dressed provocatively, even guys without shirts! If you Google ‘Pride Dublin 2014′ for images of the parade (not posed for newspapers, but of the crowds) you will see thousands of people in t-shirts and jeans. To say that Pride is full of naked people is absolute nonsense. As for twerking, it has been around for decades and was popularised by performers like Beyonce, Miley Cyrus, Destiny’s Child and others – HETEROSEXUAL performers! Do I think that the video of the child is appropriate? No, but I am not the parent of that child and I have no say in how the child is brought up. Would you have posted the link if it had been taken in their own home, or at a school or in a park? No you wouldn’t – but at a Pride parade makes it perfect fodder for you to exhibit your homophobic ignorance and blame it on the ‘gay agenda’. Well MY agenda is equality and respect and support for all law-abiding people regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. What’s yours?
Slán kid
“Im straight thanks for your concern I’m not afflicted with that sick ideology”
“shut up paedo”
There you go.
The Antisemitic / Racist were examples of other opinions you can not hold as valid under the heading of Free Speech.
It is absolutely a free country, so free in fact that we actually allow people like you to voice your opinions. Even though you call people pedophiles for no reason and call people fascist, yes Shane we actually do allow you to speak. Perhaps, you should embrace that freedom for good and not lower yourself to such ridiculous vitriol.
Anyway, I’ve no interest in ‘debating’ with you further, I am confident our paths will never cross.
it’s the weekly delivery of glitter for the boys in the office
GLEN?
The professional lobby group with a charitable status?
That GLEN?
Maybe it’s the tax man looking for a slice of the pie.
Maybe he can call to the Iona Institute when he’s finished too?
Jesus, Jack…give it a rest, your issues are showing…
Legatus, Lolek Ltd this isn’t a naming game you can win I’m afraid.
“Issues”
Jeez.
The list of clichés and annoying phrases grows…
“The list of clichés and annoying phrases grows…”
Like this one?
“Maybe it’s the tax man looking for a slice of the pie.”
As publicity stunts go this one takes the biscuit.
Beats ‘anonymous twitter abuse’ hands down any day of the week.
*Yawn*
Haha. Your bitterness greatly improved my day.
Charming. What idiot would do something like that??
The Bi who cried wolf?
If that is the worst counter reaction of a member of the NO lobby to the YEs outcome of the Referendum, it is mild enough and not worth getting too exercised over. The Referendum has been won and it is now time for the legislation.
Can only add one thing – whoever did it? – Gobsh*tes !!!
Hey, hey, hey.firemen with big hose’s keep the post coming
Catch the idiot that did it and make him pay for the inconvenience of army police and fire department, then send him to solitary confinement for a long long time, and good riddence.
@ELeary Who is leaping to conclusions? I said religious figures would want to condemn it just in case one of their followers. Never actually said was someone religious. I would say atheists should condemn this but they are a religious section also. If someone religious did it better to have those who are religious condemn. I will add all no campaigners who led those campaigns should also condemn it.
No ,you said “better come out” like you have the power to instruct people what to do , much like the church , calm down love .
Mick if you would read, fuve said the religious brigade better come out to condemn this
The homophobes can never ocntain their hatred and evil hidden for long
New York City’s Stonewall rioters of 1969 and the daring organisers of Britain’s first-ever Gay Pride parades in the early 1970s have seen their dreams of equality come true. They had a dream, those early warriors for homosexual rights, and now that dream is a reality. Let us rejoice! There is only one problem with this narrative – it is the biggest load of bunkum. It glosses over the fact that those early gay radicals were not remotely interested in getting married, or in winning equality, the only thing that today’s super-square gay campaigners and their cheerleaders go on about. The Stonewall radicals wanted liberation, not equality, and they wanted to destroy marriage, not buy into it. The Gay Liberation Front that emerged out of the Stonewall riot insisted that “complete sexual liberation for all people cannot come about unless existing social institutions are abolished”. It was pretty clear that one of the social institutions that would have to be done away with was marriage. A Gay Manifesto, an influential radical pamphlet published in 1970, described marriage as “a rotten, oppressive institution”. In Gay is Good, lesbian activist Martha Shelley’s explosive and much-loved 1972 booklet, homosexuals were described as “women and men who, from the time of our earliest memories, have been in revolt against the sex-role structure and the nuclear family structure”. As for Britain’s early Gay Pride get-togethers – they viewed marriage and the family as ”a patriarchal prison that enslaves women, gays and children”. To depict last night’s passing of the gay marriage bill as a victory for these early campaigners is a bit like saying the nuking of Hiroshima was the joyous outcome of CND marches. Writing in 2002, on the 30th anniversary of Britain’s first Gay Pride parade, Peter Tatchell said: ”There were no calls for equality; our demand was liberation. We wanted to change society, not conform to it.” So in essence, the gay marriage campaign of today, with its drab demand that homosexuals be granted equal access to the social institution of “rotten, oppressive” marriage, represents not the fulfilment of early gay radicals’ demands but the warping of them, the stomping of them into the dirt of history. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100201727/the-gay-radicals-of-the-past-didnt-want-equality-they-wanted-liberation-and-thought-marriage-was-oppression/
When the YES side won my first thought was that they have conformed to to society.
The government must be delighted with the YES vote
As someone who remembers the Stonewall clashes in the UK, this is very wimpy stuff. GLEN needs to grow a pair.
While you’re busy with nostalgia, it might serve you better to remember that the Stonewall riots took place in New York, not the UK.
You don’t remember them very well, then. Stonewall was a few thousand miles away from the UK!
Your right of course. It was meant to read US not UK.
So Jacob, perhaps you would like to explain how the violence that propogated the stonewall riots somehow makes it acceptable by any measure to send these kinds of threats and hoax attacks to any gay group? Or are GLEN just not manly enough by your estimate for treating the lives and wellbeing of their members with respect by alerting the relevant authorities?
Bet it was the homos sent it. Haven’t been in the news lately. Queer thing to happen.
Which homos would that be then, John?
Homo erectus?
Homo habiilis?
Homo neanderthalensis?
Homo sapiens?
Homo sapiens sapiens?
Eh..homosexual? Thought the queer reference might give it away.
Jesus the trolls get slower every day
If the person who sent this is caught what would they be charged with. could sending a note with goodbye and some harmless powder be considered a crime.
when I left work years ago I got a card with goodbye on it and a cake with candles that were lit on it should I have gotten ten firebrigades round to put the candles out in case it might be something sinister.
If anywhere else got this it would have been thrown in the bin and they would have got on with their day. But there would have been no headline in the journal then.
Depends on their motivation, whether it is a crime or not. Still should be charged with wasting the emergency services time.
It must have been to scare them for some reason – why else would they send a packet of mysterious blue powder?
Any chance it was Prof. Bill Powderly?
News just in , a group called Al Gay da have claimed responsibility for the ” blue power bombing of glens HQ .
Clever !
There’s a lotta people on here giving reds to some genuine witty comments, these people wouldn’t know the meaning of wit if it reached out and bit them,
sent it themselves? I wonder.
The Mariban strikes again.
If it was blue then it must be the true blue F.G. brigade?
Over kill and as dramatic as anything???
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