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A NEW ISLAMIC State propaganda video appears to confirm what has been apparent for some time now. It is official. Ireland, and Irish citizens are a priority target for Islamic State militants.
The video, which purports to be from Islamic State, clearly shows the Irish tricolor among the flags of nations it identifies as a coalition of ‘devils’ and enemies of ISIS.
This ‘revelation’ will come as no surprise to most Irish citizens. Irish people have been killed and injured in almost all Islamist attacks in the west including the Paris attacks, the Tunisian massacre in June of this year, the London 7/7 attacks, the Madrid bombings, Bali and 9/11.
If confirmed as authentic, the latest ISIS video simply confirms what most Irish people have known all along. ISIS and Al Qaeda regard Irish people as legitimate targets in their campaign against western values.
Almost all Irish citizens seem to realise this.
The Irish government on the other hand, seems to be keen to play down the threat. Their attitude seems to be one of, ‘nothing to see here, move along now’.
Lessons learned
On Monday, just ten days after the Paris attacks, Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald gave a worrying interview on RTE Radio’s News at 1 on the ‘lessons learned’ from the incident.
When asked if the Paris attacks had prompted a change in the perceived threat level to Irish citizens on the part of government here, Minister Fitzgerald replied that it ‘remain(s) as it was before … We have not changed it’. The Minister for Justice also remarked, ‘Ireland is not as vulnerable to an attack. The alert levels are different’.
From a security perspective, there are a number of clear difficulties with the Minister’s responses.
To begin with, the Paris attacks and the subsequent security lock-down in Brussels point to a de-facto change in the threat level to EU citizens posed by Islamic State. In other words, the level of coordination involved in the Paris attacks, the level of violence used and the evidence of a substantial network of support to mount such attacks marks a sea change in Islamic State’s capacity for terrorist operations.
The Paris attacks differ fundamentally from previous attacks such as the Charlie Hebdo incident in terms of the numbers of individuals involved and in the planning, command and control and logistics involved.
In short, Islamic State within the European Union is evolving in sophistication and prowess as quickly and dramatically as its parent organisation ISIS within Iraq and Syria.
This has been commented upon widely throughout the EU. Britain, our nearest neighbour, has decided to recruit an extra 1,900 analysts and field operatives to MI5 and MI6 to counter the threat.
Similar initiatives are underway throughout the EU to bolster intelligence gathering and internal security. This is because there has been a fundamental and existential escalation in the threat to all EU citizens posed by Islamic State.
For Minister Fitzgerald to state that the threat level to Irish citizens remains unchanged does not fit with the objective facts. Nor does it fit with plain common sense.
The Paris attackers identified and exploited a weakness in the intelligence continuity between the Belgian and French authorities.
Islamic State in tandem with all Islamist terrorist organisations proactively seeks out such weaknesses and gaps in order to launch attacks. ISIS is attracted to jurisdictions and locations where security infrastructure is poor and where high profile, ‘soft’ targets are available.
Deficiencies
Ireland has the poorest security and intelligence infrastructure within the EU. This is through no fault of an Garda Siochana, the lead intelligence agency within the state.
Nor is it the fault of Defence Forces personnel who support the Gardai in their counter-terrorism role. Our defence and intelligence capacity has been eroded and hollowed out by years of austerity and cutbacks within Justice and Defence.
The comparisons with our EU neighbours are bleak. Britain has MI5, MI6, GCHQ in Cheltenham, the UK Border Force along with its metropolitan and regional constabularies – along with a substantially endowed military intelligence cohort – to monitor internal security and disrupt attacks on the public.
Some attacks will inevitably succeed.
In those circumstances, the reaction time of properly trained, properly armed response units – along with front line doctors and nurses – are essential to reduce loss of life in mass casualty incidents. Such attacks need to be halted within minutes and victims triaged and treated on site. Hence the importance of real time exercises.
Ireland has not mounted such multi-agency exercises in relation to the current threat posed by Islamist extremists. Nor do we have dedicated intelligence agencies such as MI5 or MI6.
The Gardai are not trained or equipped to deal with such an attack. Ordinary armed Gardai outside of the ERU have received no training for a number of years now in dealing with heavily armed terrorists or those with suicide vests.
The weapons issued to most armed Gardai are no match for the type of Kalashnikov assault weapons favoured by Islamist extremists.
Gardai have repeatedly asked to be issued with a replacement for the Uzi machine gun – especially in the aftermath of the murder of Garda Adrian Donohoe in 2013.
A weapon such as the Colt C8 5.56mm carbine would be the minimum requirement for armed Garda units responding to a terrorist attack in Ireland. At present, detectives responding to such an attack, would be seriously ill-equipped. Irish Army officers have also pointed out in the last week that we are not equipped to deal with the terror threat.
Ireland fits precisely the target profile that attracts ISIS terrorists. Poor security and intelligence infrastructure and high profile soft targets such as the Global Headquarters of Google, Facebook, Twitter – not to mention the use of Shannon Airport by 2.2 million US troops.
Dr Tom Clonan is a former Captain in the Irish armed forces. He is a security analyst and academic, lecturing in the School of Media in DIT. He is also an Independent candidate for Senate-TCD Panel. You can follow him on Twitter here.
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We are not an islamic country, obviously we are on the list
It looks like somebody googled “list of Non-Shi’ite Muslim countries in alphabetical order”
Don’t think that has anything to do with it.. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey, Bosnia, etc. are on it… One day people will realise Islam has very little to do with Isis apart from being a tool – albeit it doesn’t suit the agenda to come to that conclusion yet.. sure the lads that planned and executed the Paris attacks among them an alcoholic, several drug users and a bar owner.. oh how very Muslim.. of course that wasn’t even reported by the Journal or most media since radical devout Muslims on a rampage fits a news story much better..
Sunni…
Not true Elvedin.
Baghdadi the head of ISIS has a phd in Islamic studies. Everything ISIS do is framed through the prism of Islam.
You really havent a barney have you
An su24 after hit crashes very fast. Still videos were taken of the crash from 2 sides. This was a set-up. What are chances u happened to be there with camera in the few seconds it took? Turkey conspired with isis affiliated turkmen on this and russia presented zero threat to turkey. But turkey suppors jihadi turkmen and moved border by 5km. Fact. Turkey wants that oil/gas pipeline thru syria. as do US and Assad opposed this. Fact.
Comexicity play the ball not the man
“The war was not meant to be won, it was meant to be perpetual” – Orwell…That is what the war on terror is, never-ending, exactly what globalists want, to keep u in perpetual fear relying on them to keep u safe while they swan off to their off shore bank accounts with your money and it is pretty obvious with undeniable evidence that they are being used as a proxy army to secure resources in the Middle- East against nations that won’t tie the line.
God we love being included. We’re in guys. We’re in!
Shite. Was going to go for a spice bag. Now I may cower under my bed for the rest of my life. Thanks isis. you fooking clowns.
The downing of su24 proves Turkey supports ISIS.
Ban the Burka. Stop paying tax payer money to ISIS supporters.
Wahabi Sunni
Gregory..I’m suspicious of a lot of elements of the shoot down,particularly the video of the MI8 hit by the TOW.and 15 seconds was sufficient to establish direction,speed,border,arm AAM’s,lock on and fire?more like an exercise in retribution by Turkey..
To the ISIS red thumbs al-fiona et al: the SU24 cruise speed is 1320 km/hour. Seconds to disaster after hit. To record that from 2 different sides is a Turkmen set up who support ISIS as do al-nusra and others and have full Turkish military support who have sneaked in US anti tanks weapons used to hit the russian chopper and a whole bunch more of armed goodies passed on to their ISIS buddies. Turkish border is like a sieve that only allows weapons filter thru from Turkish side.
Actually ISIS hit Tunisia 3 times in 2015. 1) museum with foreigner on holiday killing 22. 2) tunisia beach killing 30 and irish citizen and 3) two days ago hitting local politicians. Tunisia now closed border to Libya the natural home of ISIS fighters who filled vacuum after idiot US president Obama and idiot Hillary Clinton sanctioned action to remove Ghadaffi who was able to control the many lunatics all with EU/NATO/support and no objections from Eire either. Idiots.
Derek, ur right the thousands of US made HIGH TECH weapons smuggled into ISIS affiliates in syria incl. The Turkmen all were bought and paid for with US tax dollars. Shame on Obama. And one of those US anti tank weapons took out Russian helicopter who were targeting ISIS. USA shame.
You are not the brightest Sertorius are you. ISIS are killing thousands of muslims and you think ISIS is Islam. They have nothing to do with Islam no more that the Ku Klux Klan has to do with christianity. The people who are risking their lives and the lives of their children to get to europe are Muslims. Put people like you play right into the hands of ISIS. Can you not see that the more islamophobic the west gets suits ISIS. ISIS wants the west to hate all muslims and give them no choice but to join them. Take a look at this video and see what they are running for.
https://www.facebook.com/frontline/videos/10153189100321641/
Joachin, was speaking to a latvian person today here in eire who followed the russian language news. If the plane drifted into the newly modified border (turkey moved the border by 5km) was only 17 seconds in turkish airspace. No time for 10 warnings. Also videos on line in russia shot from 2 sides while it crashed which happened very very fast given su24 cruise speed 1320km/hr. How lucky the isis Turkmen got fabuluous shots from both sides?
Cool story bro!
Could they deliver?
Gregory..to be fair,those Turkmen are headhackers with or without US tax dollars…
Gregory..it stinks…it also means the Turks are seriously rattled..the Russkis aren’t playing favourites among the headhackers…
Joachin, I worked in the oil fields in eastern siberia in russia for a certain irish company. This company replaced a lot of us (highly paid) irish with cheap turkish labour. Watch those turkish work visas expire!! I liked the russians I met there got stuck a few times as u do abroad and the russians I knew couldnt have been more sound and helped me out. I found them very similar to the irish in that sense.
Gregory. Just do a little research before spouting. You’re falling for the trap of believing that there is some monolithic combined group of combatants fighting Assad and that they must all be “ISIS”. This is patently not true and the Russians themselves have admitted that are negotiating with various anti-Assad groups to broker a future cease-fire. By the way the Syrian Turkmen as an ethnic group were oppressed by the Al-Assad regime for 40 years long before the advent od ISIS/ISIL, their language was outlawed and lands taken from them. Try not be so simple in your outlook
F24: surviving su24 pilot rescued by russian forces says no warning neither radio nor visual were received. Turkey knew there was no threat from Russia. Turkey conspired wit isis affiliate Jihadi Turkmen in Syria who oppose Assad.
Stephen, u talking about the turkmen savages I saw yesterday screaming allah akbhar while dragging a dead body and filming it? They are certified lunatics. Btw ur view is not spouting but neither is mine. Ur just plain wrong.
don’t you mean Shiite?
Those that Deny Freedom to others
Do NOT deserve it for themselves.
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Yep nothing new in that list of flags…yawn!
@ AN other; non Sunni you mean
I see 60 flags corresponding to 60 countries! Better lock down the country and declare a permanent state of national emergency. Close everything. Shut all business. Prohibit all public meetings.
So many alarmists are so keen to feed the Daesh agenda.
Gregory..Seriously would you be calm after being on the receiving end of a bombardment from Russian planes. You are calling people “savages”…The Brits called Irish Republicans savages after what happened in Belfast in 1988 to Corporals Wood and Howes when they were set upon. I am not wrong…Life a lot more nuanced than you seem to think. After 40 years of brutal torture and political suppression by the Assad regime don’t judge…
https://www.hrw.org/report/2012/07/03/torture-archipelago/arbitrary-arrests-torture-and-enforced-disappearances-syrias
Stephen O’Sullivan, Well said…this idea that everybody against Assad is Isis is ridiculous.
Gregory…you totally speak your mind..we have to admire that..that and your honesty..you had only good experiences with the ordinary Ivan…
Gregory…it does look like a fit up…either Turkey wants DAESH destroyed or they don’t…THEY won’t do it but they’ll attack a force that will…
Fiona…nice one,denigrate those citizens who express concern or fear…
Totally, video has Hollywood profession production standards and it’s like soo obvious that there is no way it could have been taken on one of the only two smart phones know to be owned in the Middle East. Like what are the chances….
Joachin, yarn dont denigrate me for expressing concern that you feel the need to use a Nazi moniker, seriously? Joachim Pieper of the Waffen SS was not too friendly to you beloved Ivans.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Peiper
And Fiona has just arrived …
Totally, ISIS nothing to do with ISLAM. They are Zionist from Mars??? Are something like that. And the internal civil war raging between Sunni and Shia Jews has also nothing to do with Islam.
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Stephen, according ur logic its ok they killed 132 innocent people in paris the other night not to mention all the other attacks in all the other countries. The ira targeted uk only for clear reasons even I do not support their bombing in uk mainland. Ur logic defies logic.
Kieran, People say the stupidest things. ISIS has an AWFUL LOT to do with Islam! The Sunni absolutely hate the Shia (and probably vice versa) and there are conflicts between the two groups in pretty much every Muslim country….
Greg…I have to hand it to you..you are one of the most prolific posters here..you never insult people..and most folk appreciate and approve of your opinions….
Thx Joachin. Yeah my russian buddy Roman helped me out big time over there. Those russians worshipped their own God, were respectful and hard working. Very principled. I had teams of russian welders out there welding in -20c.respect.
You are soo right Fiona the are only a bunch of misunderstood scallywags…..
Next they will be accused of cutting people’s heads off.
Things that worry people these days…
Stephen…you could have made your precise points without denigrating Gregory…”spouting,simple”…
Gregory.. Show me where its claimed that SyrianTurkmen rebels killed anybody in Paris? You have been duped into thinking all the anti-Assad combatants in Syria are ISIS. This is not true
bingo. To say that “ISIS has an awful lot to do with Islam” is a bit like saying the Ku Klux Klan has an awful lot to do with christianity. 99.9% of Muslims do NOT see ISIS as true muslims
Milodetz joachin good man. Spacebo; spokone notche, thank u and good night!
Gregory….don’t forget to punch your card and let the Kremlin know your are going off-duty, With the exchange rate the way it is now,.every Ruble counts
Lol are you serious, maybe buried very deeply in my post was a very small hard to detect element of heavily disguised sarcasm.
Maybe it was to subtle, but I thought the Sunni Jews in a civil war against the Shia Jews might have given the game away….silly me
No Israeli flag ?? Surprised much!
@james
You are soo right, every body knows the KKK are murdering 1000′a every month across 3 continents in the name of that hippy fellow jebus. And Muslims across the world are having a ball and living in peace and harmony.
Apart from that small silly disagreement 1400 years ago that has occasionally led to an occasional raised voice.
Thanks for putting that in perspective for me.
Gregory, the Turkmen aren’t “ISIS supporters” – they’re actually fighting against ISIS you muppet!
I think people who say ISIS aren’t real Muslims mean well. Sure, the vast vast majority of muslims don’t practice Islam the ISIS way but that’s not really relevant. ISIS think they’re way of practicing Islam is the only way and accepting that they’re Muslim is part of understanding them and understanding them can help combat them.
“Security” expert talks up security threat. Shock horror!
What about those terrorist tapes that were shown to be pure fabrications Mr. Cloonan?
Researcher’s Analysis of al Qaeda Images Reveals Surprises — UPDATED (2007)
http://www.wired.com/2007/08/researchers-ana/
James, Did you pluck that figure out of the sky!? Isis followers are Muslim – that old – a priest who commits abuse isn’t a priest – doesn’t fly with me. I think maybe you should read more on this subject. You could start with this http://www.islamicbulletin.org/free_downloads/resources/reliance2_complete.pdf Page 595 on apostasy…and sure while your at it Jihad is the next section!
Is this satire?
Greg..soon..spaciba.
Kieran..love good quality sarcasm..
@ann
Taped radio transmission between ISIS HQ and Tel Aviv. Abdul here how was your day. Abdul 2 in Tel Aviv, sameold, chucked a gay guy off a tower, and u. Abdul 1, stoned a chick and a few beheading “yawn” Hay did u hear we forgot the Israeli flag on the list. Noooooooo way, the cats out of the bag now. Ann on the journal has uncovered out dastardly Jewish plot. ……….stunned silence.
You’re certainly far from good quality sarcasm, aren’t you?
Waffen-$$ Standartenfuhrer Joachim Peiper….that chap is probably turning in his grave that someone using his name is defending Ivans
@James Superior – Brigitte Gabriel on the Muslim peaceful majority.
http://youtu.be/Ry3NzkAOo3s
Russians are sound!?!
Islam has everything to do with it , everything. What people tolerate this fascist , racist , bigot , sadist , murdering , sexist , hypocritical religion is disturbing. It has no place in any civilized country .
Tom Clonan is a very good analyst and is spot on. Declan Power is not in his league.
The video shows the flags of 60 countries and is not even authenticated. Cloonan asserts that Ireland fits the profile for a terrorist attack precisely. Best invitation ever but, despite the invitation, Daesh has far superior and more obvious targets.
I would be more impressed if Tom Clonan was giving his free advice discreetly and confidentially to the Government. Instead he is indulging in scaremongering.
Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Nigeria, Somalia, Mali, Cameroon, Chad, Pakistan, Jordan, Afghanistan etc ARE Islamic countries. And they have been targeted by IS and their pals.
JJSP
Straight in as usual throwing the insults and phobic labels around like snuff at a wake, “people like who, plays into the hands of ISIS” , you mean people of the middle ground that you and your cohorts try to stifle every time there’s genuine debate with your hyper sensitive outrage. Is it possible for 1 day a week that you could put away your LGBT bleeding heart? Look at the pictures of those so called victims fleeing ISIS, where are the woman and children, they are fit military men, running away from the enemy, I cannot think of any conflict, where such a phenomenon has occurred in History.
Clonan should be heeded about this ISIS business. Ireland and the Irish people have been targets ever since Fine Gael and Fianna Fail sold the country out to major movers and shakers in Washington DC. Though our independence was sold out to American business vultures long before it actually happened in 1921. Our country is one of State side’s primary Illuminati boltholes. Given our proximity to Britain, It is the height of ignorance and stupidity to think we can escape being sucked into America, Britain’s and Europe’s war with so called ISIS. The political elites in these countries created ISIS, for one reason and one reason only: To stir the shit in the Middle East; presenting a good reason for creating a world army The Washington DC power cabal need to take a rain check about doing business with so called ” Rouge States ” Last century it was instituted by Man Bush and the Empire builders, followed through this century by boy Bush and his destroyers of immensely important cradles of Western Civilisations, ancient Nations who hold the key to the foundations the Western world. Indeed there is something rotten in the Whitehouse.and Americas, Britain’s and Europe’s war with so called ISIS.
Objective or not he articulated the threat exactly. We are a soft target with major multinational targets for them to hit and perfect justification using Shannon. But i think he’s a fine journalist all the same.
Good one but IS are Sunni not Shia. They hate Shia Muslims just as much, if not more, as they hate the “decadent” West.
Isis…not a great bunch of lads
I see Albania made the list to lol. Good luck to them attacking them.Every Albanian has a gun and not afraid to use it. Idiots. They also forget that although disbanded we have underground groups who will get sniff of them before law. Don’t fancy their chances. And criminal org I don’t believe will sell them guns. They are delusional. Where as in contenential Europe I can imagine how they got guns and bomb equipment through to other borders
They have no hope of shipping into Ireland.
Now all suspected sympathisers should be rounded up and fuc##d out with their families. And proper vetting of arrivers. Don’t care if its stereo typing fk em. Like it or lump it.
Fuve. They don’t have to live here. A few hours on the ferry from the UK and they can be here fully armed and ready to kill. You may have missed it but the UK is choc full of Islamists.
That’s why I said proper vetting of arrivies Mick. Hardly going to get through port with a gun or bomb.
Fuve…there are Bucko’s in this country with stolen high powered rifles,shotguns…others who know where AK’s etc are secreted….THEY can’t/won’t use them…can you be so certain they won’t deal with a shady “cash converter”????
On the topic of ferries fuve….they are,in my experienced opinion,WIDE open….I wish it wasn’t so….
fuve, I think it’s pretty unlikely there’ll be anything here, but we do have a pretty porous coast line! I would agree with not letting people who travel to Syria/Iraq back into the country, and kicking out anyone associated with organising on behalf of Isis or any other nutty group. Also, we should be very careful about who enters the country in general – including kicking out EU citizens or others who break laws.
I can say our buckos no wouldn’t deal with them. You honestly think our criminals would sell anything to them knowing it could be their kid mother sister killed? Hardly.
Also hence why I said proper vetting. Pretty sure the port security are very good at picking out undesirables
They also could never get guns through metal detectors in UK or here. They might get in but that’s where the buck stops for them.
UK…metal detectors ..maybe..but as someone..benign I might add..who has defeated border security before…we are wide open.and compared to DAESH and their afilliates..I’m not the most devious.
What did you get through Joachin ? Anything interesting ?
The coast fuve, the coast! Weapons are not smuggled though metal detectors at airports…most airports anyway. I agree criminals here would be very unlikely to sell them anything – but I’m sure they’d have their own contacts…. It’s very unlikely anyway.
Sis…I’ll post you another time…less surveillance…I never forget.
Bro , neither do I !
We will have to be very careful about these migrants we are bringing in. Better yet not bring them in at all. We have seen in the past few weeks that there are people with jihadist sympathies living in Ireland currently. Better to keep the number to one which we are aware of than to one which we have no clue of.
Francie Fitz promised to fast track them in, no?
Where are the ones that we’ve already taken in ? Are they being observed ?
The more we taken the lees are forced to join ISIS. Take a look at this Video and see what happens if we don’t get to europe.
https://www.facebook.com/frontline/videos/10153189100321641/
they don’t
Yes Suzie..by their neighbours…
Yes Suzie, apparently the Guards have a list of names of people who may have been radicalised and could possibly pose a threat.
That’s a GREAT article to scare people in Ireland. ISIS is threatening basically EVERYONE country which is not islamic.
Try not to be afraid Martina,
You like the rest of us will have to keep our eyes open, avoid crowded areas, and report anything remotely suspicious.
After that its get trained up and get a gun licence.
In 15 years or so it will be convert or die in most european cities.
I prefer fight and live…
Watch this space guys, the next thing there will be a ban on protest marches and a clamp down on social media, legislation passed in the name of national security as Isis is using the web to recruit. It will suit the government down to the ground especially Lorraine Higgins.
EU has a huge gun grab on proposed at the moment, you know to confiscate legally held guns to help with illegal AK’s flooding into EU. Like that will help.
Didn’t hear that melty….tell me more..
The EU are pushing through a ban on all semi auto rifles and are trying to control online sales . they’re bringing it forward after what had happened in Paris.
Get a life mate.
That’s directed at Alexander…
Thanks Sis..didn’t cop that..its OK..I’m bolt action.fair enough.the average shooter won’t mind.
Sound advise Ewan learn the words to ” i would like to teach the world to sing” it can stop a zombie apocalypse
I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing
I’d like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
For apple trees and honey bees
And snow white turtle doves
I’d like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I’d like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company
I’d like to see the world for once
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
For peace throughout the land
It’s the real thing
What the world wants today
That’s the way it’ll stay
With the real thing (peace and love)
It’s the real thing
(I’d like to teach the world to sing)
What the world wants to see
In perfect harmony (perfect harmony)
A song of peace that echoes on
And never goes away
Put your hand in my hand let’s begin today
With your hand in my hand let me find the way
I’d like to see the world for once all standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills for peace throughout the land
i hope they wouldn’t be stupid enough to threaten to bomb the north of ireland..them up north knew what a bomb was before isis were in nappys
I wonder will all those that were claiming all last week that were not a target would like make a comment?
Yeah..where is Fiona deFreyne?
We are as much a target as the UK, Israel and UAE… Is say that’s accurate
Yeah – I said that if you care about the opinion of these people then you’re an idiot. I stand by that. We cannot cower and wait to be deemed a target at the whim of these insane thugs. Who cares what they think.
Joachin, al-fiona debunked yesterday on bad english etc.
Martin. It’s not living in fear that anyone is suggesting. But a few practical steps by the Government would go a long way. Simple things like having every major Garda station equipped with say a dozen HK 416 rifles and the Gardai trained to use them. Set up a new intelligence agency based on the MI5 model with Gardai and Military seconded to it until it was up and running and capable recruiting and training it’s own Officers. Increase Garda numbers to 15,000. (London with a population of 6 million has 35,000 Police Officers. We with a population of 4 Million have 11,000 to cover an area 100 times bigger than Greater London). Give the Military the Equipment and manpower that they have requested and triple the size of the ARW.
Tom Clownan anal-isis!
Mick…completely reasonable.that would contribute hugely toward managing domestic crime also.
All good suggestions. But I can’t see the military and Gardai agreeing to play second fiddle to a new intel organisation.
The taxpayer has to be presented with a plan for approval detailing the number of migrants we are taking in, when they are coming, and how we plan to deal with it down to the very last detail. We cannot be just told we are taking a certain amount with no proposed plan. I don’t trust this government to look after our interests
Get them into coppers, few scoops, a bop, a mountain of a bogger mooch, bag a chips after and rickshaw to grafton street for some early hour craic. They won’t know which way is up after that and wander off disorientated.
hahaha not equipped here to deal with them. A sense of humour will only get you so far.
They will be climbing your walls before long.
Are you ready?
ready to partaaaaaayyyyyyy !!!
Wish someone stop to think how powerful ISIS was…..they can be easily beaten as long as we are united to fight & finish off them……
A war in which one side uses gorilla warfare can never end in a conclusive result either way.
Just ask the British in Northern Ireland; no matter what size army and how state of the art your weapons are how can you stop a person or people getting a weapon and killing people in a street?
This isn’t desert storm. There is no actual army fighting the allies like in World War Two.
If ISIS keep it up they will always be able to cause havoc.
Just have a read about the attempts that have been stopped by the Russians and the Americans in which ISIS where attempting to obtain nuclear weapons/ material. Scary stuff.
As Robert Fisk says we may not like it but there has to be some negotiations here.
Yeah..if only Turkey would join the coalition of the willing..
He’s right, gorilla warfare is unbeatable and pure barbaric viciousness, bananas and peanuts flying everywhere…watch out
Hilarious!!!
ISIS+US+TURKEY+SUADI ARABIA VS. RUSSIA+IRAN+SYRIA.
Fm US are arming ISIS and affiliates. Fact.
70% of the US planes targetting ISIS return carrying all their bombs having hit nada.
@f m: They’re conscripting apes?
fm – how can you negotiate with extreme religious fanatics like ISIS?
Generally like Tom Clonan’s contributions to radio…..
But this piece is utter scaremongering tabloid tripe.
A few facts:
1) Being one of 60 out of 196 countries on a schoolboy video does not make this country a “priority” target.
2) There is no evidence that Irish citizens were specifically targeted in the “almost all” Islamic attacks in the west. Incidental murders/injuries? Sure. But no evidence of specific targeting of Irish citizens, establishments, sporting fixtures, holiday destinations…
3) It is not inconceivable that a peripheral European island, outside of Schengen, with a recent, tiny, well-educated, well-integrated, relatively middle class Muslim population would present a different terrorist threat profile than European states with large, segregated, disenfranchised Muslim populations from countries which have been colonised and invaded by the same European states for centuries!
4) Which country in Western Europe has the most experience with terrorists per head of population since the 1960s? Yeah. This one.
5) Does he seriously accuse France and Belgium of fitting a “target profile” by having a “poor security and intelligence infrastructure”?!
PS does Clonan think that hyping up the threat and drawing attention to a list of “potential” targets in this country is responsible as an Irish media commentator?
Pipe down, avoid headline-seeking sensationalism, and advise the security services if you have anything constructive/ responsible to say.
@Diarmuid… would Shannon not be a prime target for DAESH?
Excellently put, Diarmuid.
Probably do deals with them, like they have been doing with terrorist organizations for the past couple of decades. Solidarity and all that. Also isis probably look up to the ira, they’ve killed more Irish people than isis have.
The IRA will sell them diesel
Thank God someone said it!
Irish or not they don’t give a fuk , if your in the line of fire tough shite is what they are saying. Nationality means diddly to them. Shower of dangerous b*stards.
The Guards will do what they can.. I blame our leaders past and present for landing us in this shit.. cheers “leaders”
Mate, your so called Gardai do not even have guns…. It’s very fitting you guys did not call them “police” so it’s impossible to confuse them with real police forces.
Tom voz that’s a typical troll comment .
Tom our guards do have guns.. speed guns.. and they are pretty good at using them.
Tom..it’s true.
Suzie, it’s an honest comment from somebody that has lived here for over 10 years and still can’t understand this. Other such things would include: double taps at sinks and wash basins, completely disorganised bus services (Dublin bus). Other than that you’re grand…
and yes, the Gardai do not seem to me like particularly efficient law enforcers.
Where are you from Tom? The wonderful, fantastical, single tap, bussing utopia that is…?
Tom , fair enough if that’s your opinions
Are you sure there’s nothing else bothering you ? It’s always good to get things of your chest .
no its not, it has merit, you don’t have to call someone a troll every-time you disagree with them
I don’t think Ireland is under threat as much as other EU countries such as the UK, France, Sweden etc all will high numbers of Muslims. Ireland have a handful and I wouldn’t under estimate the gardai and special branch they are slot more sophisticated than most people think.
Dog…we have 60k – 90k…no one knows.
Shannon has always been a target
All it takes is a handful Dogtooth, I don’t know how many Muslims live in Ireland but I’d imagine most are peace loving. It only takes a few to cause mayhem.
Paul Murphy, how can you claim that it is highly unlikely it’s an Isis target? And to idiotically claim that bombing an airport in the EU wouldn’t attract enough attention, you’re simply talking through your h*le
Wrong. Shannon. US Military planes. lots of US companies in Eire. The 51st State..
Lots of US companies all over the world. Lots of US military aircraft all over the world. Lots of more obvious targets than Ireland.
Bit of OTT rant from Tom Clonan, self interest too methinks. Everyone in the world should be wary of terrorists, but don’t stop living. These rants and op eds ratchet up fear levels
Agree @David Moylan
Situational awareness. Look at the facts. the are coming. Might not be tomorrow but it could be next week.
We are poorly equipped to deal with them. Unarmed, untrained and a bit naive…..
Start planning now or lose everything.
“Een gewarschuwd mens telt for twee”: dutch proverb “a warned person counts for two”.
They killed 130 people through 6 attacks in a city of 2.5 million, not bad odds of survival, so why worry? A city that was supposedly in a sate of high alertness and expecting another attack with highly trained police force. I don’t even know how one can be “wary” of terrorists, it’s a reality that there could be an attack but the British could also re-invade or a Tsunami could bury us or you could be hit by a car.
Tom, you are correct. It is ludricious to say the threat level has not changed when the nature of the threat has. The ERU has been equipped with the HK-416 assault rifle to match the AKs carried by the terrorists. But the ordinary detective, likely to be first on the scene of an attack, has only a Sig pistol. It is criminal that the Uzi was withdrawn on cost grounds. Detectives need a patrol carbine, like the Colt M-4, to protect themselves. The Army Ranger Wing is based in the Curragh. How long would it take them to get to Dublin? A platoon should be based in a Dublin barracks. At least a platoon of soldiers in each barracks also need to be trained in close quarter battle tactics.
Ah sure it’ll be grand…
Don’t…totally correct.
Good post. And bullet proof vests/helmets for the gardai.
What did we ever do..
Yes, Dario – as soon as you refer to a culture as ‘them’ you take the first step towards dehumanisation.
Martin, are u calling islamic extremists who murdered killed so many in Paris human or reasonable? These are Jihadi warmongers. Different rules apply.
Shannon, us army.
Dario..unusually..I agree with you.
Martin, what are you talking about? “Them” is a pronoun and perfectly legitimate one referring to another party such as ISIS or anyone else. So no dehumanisation or otherwise was implied. However much worse should have been suggested about ISIS but Dario didn’t lower himself to insults.
“Bring it on, fakkas, we’ve fought more guerrilla wars than you’ve had hot kebabs.” Oh my..
I am NOT equating refugees fleeing ISIS with terrorists. I am NOT equating all Muslims with terrorists.
If you’re doing that you are showing the exact same kind of thinking as ‘ISIS’ : Anyone not like us does not deserve to be considered humanely.
I’ve no time for religion or terrorism but I will never be casually inhumane out of fear and ignorance.
We did not have to do anything, we are westerners.
Motivations could include though, gay marriage, our reputation for socializing, not being a strict sharia state.
ISIS have repeatedly shown that you do not have to do anything for them to want to kill you.
And the award for PC idiot of the week goes to Martin.
Thanks Jho! Is it shiny?
Pathetic fear mongering, “look we’re among the dozens of flags in a video and Irish people (along with lots of other nationalities) were killed in bombings some not even committed by IS but yeah we’re defo a major target”
Must be great to live in denial. Is the earth flat in your world too?
Are you denying that this is anything more than a fluff piece using scare tactics that are pretty unfounded?
You’ve been watching too many Rambo movies, back on with your racist xenophobic tin foil hat!
Well lets see.
Tunisia. People laying on Beach no threat to anyone. Murdered.
Bali. People in a night club enjoying target night out. Murdered.
Sydney. People having a coffee. Murdered.
Bangkok. People walking down the street. Murdered.
Nairobi. People out shopping. Murdered.
Madrid. People on a train on their way to work. Murdered.
London. People going to work on the underground and on the bus. A young Soldier off duty. Murdered.
Istanbul. People at a peace demo. Murdered.
Bamako. People in their hotel. Murdered.
Sharm el Sheik. People going home from their holidays on a plane. Murdered.
Brussels. People at a museum. Murdered.
And the list goes on. And what have they all in common. Murdered by Islamists, all innocent.
Islam doesn’t have the exclusive rights on murder….. racist
@Integra-Ted are you a doctor, can you diagnose all phobias, do you take the medical card? You clowns crack me up ha
Your last post says it all… FYI Islam is not a race….. que tumbleweed
There is no question as to the innocence of the people that were horrifically murdered. What the attacks have in common is that that each one targeted people indiscriminately, in museums, coffee shops, night clubs. It is completely unfounded to suggest that as Irish people were amongst the innocent people murdered that an attack in Ireland is imminent. If anything, Ireland would be a target as a multicultural touristic location and due to the significantly vulnerable border security.
Integra ted . Oh FFS islam is not a race but you keep pushing that racist point over and over again .
Inegra. No Islam doesn’t have exclusive rights on murder.
But it does have the exclusive rights to being the most internationally widespread, indiscriminate group of murders the world has yet seen.
Mick..concise.
Integra..you do yourself a disservice…
Think what you like, you and the other Islamaphobe racist commentators must come from the Donald Trump school of Trolling!
This isn’t a movie and you clowns don’t have degree’s in middle-eastern politics!
Integra. Islam is not a Race or a different Ethnicity. In fact it has amongst it’s ranks almost every race and ethnicity on the planet. Islam is an Ideology that combines religious belief, politics, civil law and military strategy. So to not to put too fine a point on it, one cannot be racist to an Ideology.
And a phobia is to have an irrational fear of something. There is nothing irrational about despising an Ideology that refers to complete subjugation of both the individual self and all those that do not share your belief in that ideology because it is an anathema to Freedom, Democracy and the Western way of life.
And btw. We are not in the Middle East. This Europe.
If Islam were just contained within the Middle East then there wouldn’t be massacres in Paris, London, Madrid, Brussels, Stockholm, Moscow, Nairobi, Sydney, Bangkok,New York, Bali, Mumbai, Ottowa, Bamako, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and not forgetting China, Philippines, Uganda, Nigeria and all the others that go on and on.
Sure it’s hardly ever Sunni here.
It’s ok lads the Garda will pepper spray any terrorist who appears on Grafton street with an Ak47…
Then we will send our planes to bomb them in Syria.. We have bombs don’t we? .. Jaggerbomb the hell outta them
Hmmm..shannon better upgrade security like now.
Scare tactics bullshyte
If they could wait till after January pay day that’d be great… First wagę increase in a few years I don’t want to miss it
Catch yourselves on. Who would dare attack us. We wrote the book on religious extremists!
True but I’m terrified!
Good lad mark hug a terrorist, that’ll make it all go away.
an ex Irish ranger took the lot of them on in Nairobi. I have faith in our guys.
Didn’t that turn out to be bs?
Isis pure evil
Not long ago Enda Kenny wanted to bring out the national guard on Irish people over banks, I rest my case !
How does the random killing of Irish people abroad equate to the targeting of Ireland by ISIS? Is the author suggesting that the Irish people that were killed in the Paris, London Tunisian attacks were known to ISIS and therefore an attack on the country of Ireland “should come as no surprise”???? The regions chosen as targets were chosen because of the global impact they would generate, not because Irish people were known to be at those locations at that time.
We don’t have anything of significance they can blow up
Our people?
Nor do they have in Syria.. But there objective is not to destroy pretty buildings. It’s to kill people and cause havoc
Buttevant maybe? Might be able to get through it a little bit faster
Innocent adults and children are not significant?
i was hinting toward tuam but different strokes i suppose
People, we have people. They will do very nicely for Daesh types. Maybe now the hippy hand-wringers will stop singing Kumbaya and realise that the luxury of the freedoms they enjoy do actually need to be defended. There isn’t a pacifist in the world that has enjoyed their right to espouse that position, that hasn’t had it protected by someone who was prepared to kill and be killed. It’s a peculiar kind of wilful delusion they live in.
Ah sure we’ll be grand
The Spire? (hopefully)
Shannon
Bring it on, fakkas, we’ve fought more guerrilla wars than you’ve had hot kebabs.
Wait till we say another mass…..then they can feck right off with themselves.
I utterly despise IS, but its hard not to kind of begrudgingly admire their ballsiness in effectively declaring war against 60 countries simultaneously.
Now lets hope those same 60 countries go in and kick their asses before handing what’s left of them to Allah….
Stupid comment Avina. Admiring pure deluded brainwashed evil. You should be embarrassed by that comment. You’re more deluded than them after that.
Are you on about the same ISIS / ISIL / IS that was created and funded by the USA / Britian / Israel. Who regularly get weapons drops from US Military?
Same folk is it? Ever wonder why the US / Britain / Israel got pi$$ed off when Russia went in and near wiped oed them out in a few weeks after the USA have been there 18 months. The US / Britian / Israel don’t want them defeated, they created them.
Why do you think that Turkey took down the Russian plane?
If anyone is deluded it’s you son.
Bullshit, we are not a ‘target’, I don’t think they would give a crap if Irish people got caught up in it, but I seriously doubt they’re sitting around thinking, ‘let’s get those Irish infidels!!’ Stop trying to scare the public!!
That’s just it Andy they don’t give a crap who they kill, what makes us so special that were not a target and a soft target ? After all we are infidels to them anyway
You should share your intel with An Garda Síochána Rowe, lol!
Hi Dick
Well can you give a good reason why we would not be a target to them?
I can’t possibly have a rebuttal to the evidence in the article Rowe, I mean, it’s a screenshot of an Irish flag, we’re all doomed.
Let’s wait till the house burns down before putting out the fire so.
The point is that the house is not on fire and is not on risk of fire.
France took in Islamists 30 years ago. Fed the parents. Educated the kidz. Put roof over head. The kidz went on the Internet watching isis videos. Made contacts. Organized killing of 132 people and many more injured in Paris.
Q.E.D.
Gregory I think she would still defend them if they set off bombs on O’Connell St. The naievty is incredible.
gregory 3 hours ago #
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France took in Islamists 30 years ago
Hmmm your knowledge of history is very limited..
do you now anything about Algeria circa 1962 ?
tom clonan professional scaremongerer
Dear IRA, Please come out of retirement, all is forgiven, we have a new enemy. This will surely unify the divided northern societies and allow us to absolutely annihalate these stone age jihad animals.
Yeah makes you wonder why the IRA or whatever they call themselves now fought the British for all those decades and yet there are possibly 10s of Jihadist allowed on the very land they were supposedly fighting for.
Or possibly no Jihadists with a terrorist agenda.
Al-fiona, no jihadis+no Agenda=paradox
Rowe, regarding the “very land they were supposedly fighting for” is our land. As I’ve said before, if the 6 counties that were partitioned were in the south, west or east of the country or whatever county you come from would you still back the Brits? You would swear our 6 counties up North were on the other side of the globe and a foreign nationality.
Fiona…I think the recent highly publicised story about the DAESH warrior who won’t accept deportation from Ireland because he has an Irish born child might suggest you are wrong Somaia…..
Going by some of the comments on the journal at times regarding the North you would be ashamed of the way people down here turned their backs and wiped their hands clean of our fellow Irishmen and women and what they endured at the hands of the Loyalists and British during the troubles and still to this day slagging them off all the time. Stab your own people in the back, would not like to be depending on help or support from them if Isis did attack us. No unity or loyalty, just out for themselves.
@watersedge…ehhh what are you on about? Where did I mention in my post that I back the British??or where did I mention the 6 counties?? The point I was making was why are potential Jihadists in my country, who are reported to be monitored by the Gardai allowed to roam freely by the IRA or whatever they are today?
It was the way you worded that sentence I highlighted but if I misunderstood you, I apologise. The second comment I posted was not aimed directly towards you, it was a general observation over the past few weeks on comments made regarding the North by some people which are quite shameful.
@watersedge..No worries
Build the fear, then the electorate will acquiesce to the loss of neutrality and civil rights .
Thank you for sense at last!
Sadly, fear and the results of fear are the greatest enemy.
Daesh would be rubbing its hands in glee if was bothering to read some of the comments on here.
I am sure ISIS care diddle squat about any comments on this site . Back to killing people in the name of Islam and for the expansion of the caliphate .
Or maybe just face and confront said fear, instead of succumbing to it. Definition of fear? Benefits of fear? After all it is a human emotion.
Fiona?…at least you use the “DAESH” word…
@Fiona deF…well what’s your excuse now?
Rowe…I don’t expect her to drop in..it didn’t go too well for her last night..
Probably busy washing her Burka
60 flags relating to 60 countries. Scary! Laughing.
So many gullible fools jumping to the tune of Daesh.
Run, hide and lock yourselves in. Tom Cloonan is a security consultant looking for a platform for his campaign fo the Seanad.
Better a burka than being a complete berk like some of the unfortunates who inadvertently serve the agenda of Daesh.
Berk, that’s a new one
She/he is back. Our very own ISIS Apologist Al-Fiona. No matter how many are killed by Wahabi Jihadi’s she manages to render them reasonable just misunderstood stood folk, which is a fair achievement, as they usually post the heads of their decapitated adveseries on-line.
Somaia….leave our Tom Clonan alone!!!he may be an alarmist but he’s all we got!!!!
Greg…yeah..I’ve seen the central roundabout in Raqqa on YouTube…for those who think DAESH are some sort of extreme Muslims…check out Raqqa on YouTube…
They’ll be picking on the wrong country..you’ll never beat the Irish..
Frightening but our government still think austerity is the only way !
The biggest threat to Ireland right now are the right-wing brownshirts such as Identity Crisis Ireland, a disgracefully anti-democratic and rabidly racist movement http://www.conorfarrell.com/wordpress/politics-2/ukip-and-the-irish-right
Absolutely true.
Richard..you are f +c+e+ now…Fiona agrees with you…credibility gone….
Our government don’t give a f++k about the public’s safety..the uzi hasn’t been replaced which means “armed” Gardai have only pistols to defend themselves and others!!!!
The Uzi is a pox of a weapon compared to the AK47, no stopping power, also it’s not as accurate.
Amadán o Riordáin must be salivating at the thought of us achieving full enrichment status via Islamo suicide bombers.
I like that No…
Sorry Mo…
Sounds like they want to implement martial law and fascism in Ireland — I say “no” to this cheap shot as hysteria.
Threat or no threat, i’d prefer if the gov took steps to increase protection and security for us to prevent a paris type attack here rather than wait, let it happen and then take some action. Fitzgerald just appears to be not taking it seriously, treating it amateurishly, and she looks nieve on the issue, which is worrying. But then her attitude seems endemic in this gov about most things.
They probably don’t have the resourses to protect the public, but they seem to have plenty resourses for protecting themselves and plenty money to pay themselves their massive overpaid salarys too, despite being horrendously poor and clueless at running the country.
He’s a good geezer Tom but not infallible….he did describe DAESH as a “resistance” movement 2 weeks ago…sorry Tom…
Crappy article. Ill informed. Does not even appreciate that Al Qaeda did the charlie Ebdo attack and Isis the recent Paris attack. Or why that is important.
its getting to be a joke at this point. ISIS< ISIL<IS or whatever they are calling it this week must have the best media and distribution arm in the world. where do they get their weapons from? who do they sell their oil to? these guys have videos of them rolling around in humvees and abrahams tanks with the latest american battle technology. where did they get the training…………these things are not something a person could use simply like a car.
why have they never attacked or threatened israel? it seems covienant that their middle east policy is brodly in line with the designs the US, israel and arabia has for the region.
perhaps the US, UK arabia, israel etc. could stop arming funding and training these nutjobs. right now the threat of terrorism is being used as a justification for invading countries and destabilising regions. it is simultaneously is been used to take away public liberties and silence people at home as well as taking away their liberties…………of course in the name of fightinging terrorism, problem reaction solution.
are there religious nutjobs? there surely is. however these morans are being armed to create a manufactured terror threat. throw in a couple of staged events and false flags people believe the story and stop asking questions.
we are told that the US has been leading international air-strikes against them for over a year but somehow they are continuously gaining ground and the public is told their numbers are always going up.
this is more propaganda to try and convince the public that isis is a real threat. many people are starting to realise the absurdity of this group and ask questions. they have the best PR team in the world,they are over social media and the web.
pay attention to all that is going on in the world…………something is up. many people are coming to that conclusion but more need too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7khSjfyr4uw&index=20&list=PLJgDzB_Zc6TLDB46bL930S8xG670d8LTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ku_E_1mc5g
these pisstake isis videos are funny………..yet get eerily close to the truth.
Sry John. But they don’t have Abrams Tanks. They have T62′s and a few T72′s abandoned by the Iraqi army. Most of their weapons are of Russian/Chinese manufacture which can be be bought from most of the worlds illegal Arms dealers. The AK47 is the most common rifle found on any battlefield around the world and the PKM is the most common Machine Gun, the RPG 7 is the most common light armour weapon, the 50 PM 40 is the most common Mortar. All Russian/Chinese models.
The sooner “Racial Profiling” stops being a dirty word the better.
When you let your enemies into your country why are you surprised when they attack you , at least we are not letting in 4,600 into the country to join the tens of thousands already here , aren’t we not ? , any comment from Aodhain O Riordain ?
He’s too busy wetting the bed
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It like the way as a footnote he mentions that 2.5 million US troops have passed through Shannon on there way to fight war in the middle east, our defense capabilities reflect our low population and neutral status, listining to enda and Simon the last few days it’s obvious they want us to all March off to war, well I can guarantee you one thing beyond a shadow of a doubt, enda and Simon certainly won’t be leading from the front, no they’ll be safely tucked away as far as possible from the killing, but they’ll be happy enough to send your own sons to face the murder machine in order to please their masters in the eu and US.
Come to Ireland to have a blast
Israeli.secret.intelligence.service
Is called Mossad. And the internal Security Service is the Shin Beit.
Mick…as a total aside..you ever come across deir yassin?
Don’t panic yet. Nothing will happen. Never does
Just like Paris eh
France has serious problems with muslim ghettos due to poverty and failed multiculturalism. . As does Belgium the uk and Sweeden. The attackers in Belgium and France were home grown 2nd generation disenchanted and easily led. The passport found at the scene is now thought to have been planted by the attackers( read some news not rte or sky)
Do you think isis paratroopers will fly over from the middle east and land in your back garden to shoot the place up. Go hide under your bed
Ronan ever hear of, Bradford, Birmingham, Tower Hamlets in London, Blackburn, Slough, Luton? All have huge Muslim populations. Wouldn’t be that hard for them to make a trip here.
Its all being hyped up as an excuse for more military spending and more surveillance and data collection from people as well as an excuse to bomb whatever part of the middle east that suits the current agenda.Don’t forget the Belgian attack was because muslims took offence to the cartoon of muhammad. This was the official story. If there was no cartoon there probably wouldn’t have been any shooting.
There is also a video of a group of French muslims threatening the owners of the bataclan back in 2008 because there is a Jewish idf supporters meeting or gala held there every year. With the violence between Israel and Palestine recently this has to be taken into account as a possible reason
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9iOCKXfrnyE
But it’s all being blamed on isis miles and miles away in the middle east. An army that no one knows who funds and have been accused of having american weapons
Just dosnt really add up when you think about it rationally
I think you are correct Ronan..our government are desperately seeking any excuse to spend more on defence and security and its Europe’s fault…we allowed those damned cartoons…and if only the Jews would take the hint and f++k off to Israel we could cosy up with the jihadis and party……
Maybe i wasnt clear. There is no real threat to Europe directly from isis and especially Ireland. It’s scare mongering. The Us and it’s military allies need an “enemy” as an excuse to do what they have been doing in the middle east since iraq which is destabilzing governments for their own agenda. War is big buisness.
The main goal is to finish Assad. Isis is just a side project and a cover
Ronan. Just to let you in on a little secret. Al Queda haven’t gone away. Daesh might be stealing their thunder right now but they are still there, still plotting. And all those smaller groups all around the world that currently give their allegiance to Daesh will still be there when Daesh is gone. But they will still “Believe” as they do now. And many of those that are now abroad will go home, trained, fanatical and looking for revenge.
There is nobody out to get you. How people keep falling for this over and over is amazing. Communists then saddam and his Wmds then Al Quieda now Isis. How will bombing the middle east stop European muslims bombing European countries?
The problem is radical muslims don’t fit in with western society. Isis is an excuse to continue bombing and interfering in the middle east after the iraq and Afghanistan wars lost support
In all of this I’m glad nobody has resorted to scaremongering sensationalist journalism… Oh wait
Someone who makes money out of increased security trying to drum up fear. Who would have thought.
It’s only because we are part of poxy EU
of cause ireland is on the list…the government continues to let the yanks use our airports as stop overs for their military planes… we are as n neutral as bloody the Koreans …. yet again our government has fuked us…not just this one but ones b4 n b4 that…we might as well just all join d yanks n every other nation in Europe n go to war…
This is scaremongering of the highest degree. Clonan should be ashamed for publishing such manure.
Yes there is a tricolour in the video. There are also the flags of Macedonia, Bosnia, Albania and the Phillipines, to name a few. I suppose they are also ‘high priority targets’?
Of course Ireland doesn’t have an intelligence service on a par with the UK. How can a security ‘expert’ compare the defence and intelligence capabilities of a small European nation with a former colonial power that is also one of the largest economies in the world?
ISIS are highly unlikely to attack us because there is only a very small Muslim population here. Their strategy is built around creating an anti-Muslim backlash in Western countries, so why attack a country where only 1% of the population are Muslim?
This article is going to seriously mislead people about the threat level to Ireland. I would advise people to ignore both the Government and the likes of Tom Clonan and instead do their own research.
This will be their easiest target because Ireland has no clue who they are leaving in our out of this Country .These people don’t care they have only one objective and that is to flood Europe with their ideology and at any cost .
Thanks to the journalists to give great ideas to potential terrorists.. Exact type of subject to deal with the authorities not in newspapers… :(
Tip to author. Get a grip.
Please stop scare mongering. Are you really looking for a vote? Highlighting our insecurities is not the way to do it. Maybe a quiet email to the head of the Gardaí síochána, but not a step by step list of our weaknesses to one of Ireland’s most popular website. The journal should have more integrity than to print it too.
Tom, you’re a moron. Stop inciting fear and start reporting in a fair and balanced manner. Besides multiple reasons not to take this seriously, or least be dubious of its origins, like for instance the ommission of Israel on the list, which one would expect to be the first country on it, you should be ashamed of yourself for been used as a vessel to spread untruths and fear amongst readers. Not a moral conscience in sight. Sad and pathetic.
The only bigger fool than him are the ones that buy into this rubbish
They probably trained with FARC, IRA, ETA etc. Imagine the IRA telling these guys how they hid undercover and managed to terrorise Ireland and England.
Yeah at the annual terrorism convention. Good lad.
Its official Tom your full of it, A terrorist attack by Isis in Ireland is highly unlikely and well you know it but lets get tooled up anyway. You’d think the Gardai would be happy with their new Hyundai’s and now what is they want ? “Colt c8 carbines” sounds like a viable plan to keep Ireland safe no doubt.
Another article , no research, no actual information …all speculation..just fuelling more fear. What kinda of an idiot writes this shite. Writing articles to fill gossip columns cause you have lost the ability to do good journalism. He should be ashamed to be writing this rubbish
Couldn’t agree more with this article!!
I agree fully with Tom Clonan. Ms Fitzgerald should take note. We are a soft target and on the ISIS murder list. Take your head out of the sand, Minister.
She is the one in Brussels who offered the invitation to them opening her big mouth challenging them, has she or Enda no gumson at all?
Dads army. That’s all we have.
well, the people of Iceland will be relieved they’re not a target :)
This is an achievement we can all be very proud of :) I for one am delighted to be apart of the infidels.
What are you saying here Brennan? What are you proud of,explain man? Put up, or shut up.
Breathnach* – it was an obvious joke. Try not to be too much of a tool and we can all be friends.
Stupid to be announcing how our gardai are not trained to deal with armed terrorists or suicide vests. While it may be true we don’t need to be informing these lunatics of it.
Paris was chosen by ISIS for its “impact value” and like all random attacks people of all races and faiths were caught up in the Paris attacks. It the weeks since Paris attacks tens of thousands have died around the world from starvation , preventable disease, lack of clean water etc. but this has had no “impact value”, as the media has no vested interest or sympathy with these victims. Ireland in general would have low impact value, therefore London and Berlin would be far more likely targets.
is it so as anyone with poor family who have to live beside them and they get more HELP and branded racist at the same time did you take them in to your home? and not the president your ivory towers r built by GERMANY
So I accept having read the latter that Clowns exist, It is now official that Tom the Clown is a proper Clown when he talks shite about IRELAND AND SO ON , maybe a bottle and a dark room would suit him better but I presume the dope would forget the gun and even if he did bring it he would forget to load it.
Maybe he could get someone to do the deal for him ,I would do it for free
because he is nothing but a stocking of shit ..
Bring it on you paedo women hating freaks.
I think that’s the catholics you are thinking of
They are already gathering on the Hill of Tara according to Frau Kenny.
He mentioned that a few months ago, when he decided again to speak off script.
Is he still locked in the broom cupboard?
Kept away from the public lest he makes an utter clown of himself again so close to an election by telling us some tall tale about a talking pig, a watch and the power of prayer.
We need a secret service like the UK the guards need to have better equipment not a shity ford Mondao or a Toyota we need big BMW jeeps and they need a decent pistol and more armed guards a and a armed guards station in every county
Bringing war to Ireland ha, they dont even have 6 counties to fight over
Perhaps its a back to front Ivory Coast flag.
Clonan should be heeded about this ISIS business. Ireland and the Irish people have been targets ever since Fine Gael and Fianna Fail sold the country out to major movers and shakers in Washington DC. Though our independence was sold out to American business vultures long before it actually happened in 1921. Our country is one of State side’s primary Illuminati boltholes. Given our proximity to Britain, It is the height of ignorance and stupidity to think we can escape being sucked into America, Britain’s and Europe’s war with so called ISIS. The political elites in these countries created ISIS, for one reason and one reason only: To stir the shit in the Middle East; presenting a good reason for creating a world army The Washington DC power cabal need to take a rain check about doing business with so called ” Rouge States ” Last century it was instituted by Man Bush and the Empire builders, followed through this century by boy Bush and his destroyers of immensely important cradles of Western Civilisations, ancient Nations who hold the key to the foundations the Western world. Indeed there is something rotten in the Whitehouse.and Americas, Britain’s and Europe’s war with so called war with ISIS.
Sorry Tom but you are being led astray, this is the biggest load of nonsense I think I have ever read.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7GAbVhjTSw an Irishman telling it how it is Gearoid O’ Colmain
Nothing new there.
Did you ever think Tom that Ireland will benefit from those extra analysts in MI5 and MI6? Or that maybe the government isn’t up to scaremongering and has in actuality increased our readiness whilst at the same time not saying
“we’re all screwed, everyone please be as scared as humanly possible”
Also, Irish people were not targeted in those attacks, they were in the very wrong place at the very wrong time.
This is a ludicrously bad article from someone who calls himself a security analyst, and smacks of someone trying to stay publicly relevant whilst running for some kind of office.
We, or our subversive citizens have probably trained them at some level, as much as the threat was after 9/11, it was this factor which probably meant that we weren’t targeted then either. Food for thought.
THOSE THAT DID 911 ARE NOW THE SO CALLED SYRIAN REBEL ARMY… Something to consider.
Ireland is already an aggressor towards the Middle East. We permitted torture flights to land at our airports, half the time I use Shannon airport I see US army murderers sitting in the airport lounge, and we’re a vassal state of NATO via the Partnership for Peace programme. We must return to full neutrality.
“It is official. Ireland, and Irish citizens are a priority target for Islamic State militants.”
This didn’t happen UNTIL Enda started to say we were, if him and others in this government kept their big mouths shut here and in Brussels then Ireland would not have been noticed at all by them, another screw up by this government.
I bet those in this government go out of the way to poke their finger into every wasp nest they come across as well.
The other side of this coin is IS / DAESH are only wanting a 80 nation army to fight them as that would re-inforce the Islamic eschatology of the Yawm al-Qiyāmah…
“Christians dominate the world up to Khaiber (near Madinah), and they will pursue Muslims with 80 flags, with 12,000 men under each flag.”
A major sign is…. “SUFYAANI ARMY SWALLOWED BY THE EARTH.
The Sufyaani army (an Anti-Muslim force) from Syria singles out Imam Mahdi for execution. On the way to Makkah, they get swallowed into the ground. A second Sufyaani army is created with 960,000 men (of 80 nations).”
The Final Signs of Qiyaamah: “5 THE BEAST FROM THE EARTH APPEARS
One day later, the Beast from the earth will miraculously emerge from Mount Safaa in Makkah, causing a split in the ground. The beast will be able to talk to people and mark the faces of people, making the believers’ faces glitter, and the non-believers’ faces darkened.” Like having a black cloth around you face???
This is part of what Isil Daesh wants, that is their mentality and that is what they believe and that is what they are trying to do with threatening countries in order to increase the amount of armies from the different countries to make 80 in total for them. This then as they believe will make others join their forces. Daesh / IS are playing the west to create hatred towards all Muslims in order to swell their forces and to create the reason for their existense thanks due to the U.K. U.S. and the U.K.
http://www.islamcan.com/cgi-bin/increaseiman/htmlfiles/static/111998346792874.shtml
Typical of us Irish to crave fame or infamy just to raise our little profile on their world stage. Will we ever learn?
Clearly a biased piece of work here. Just how on earth Tom claims to know what has been apparent to the Irish people for some time now, is quite the mystery to me. Because you certainly dont speak for me Tom. Scaremongering isnt clever its embarrassing.
Very factual great article
Don’t people realise, it’s never Sunni in Ireland.
ISiS victims 99% Muslims. Most citizens of Mosul..Raqqa Baghdad etc. They also.bombed shia mosques in Kuwait n KSA..attacked targets in turkey…lebanon..lebanon etc. In real war gainst ISiS its mostly muslims who fighting them n dying particularly kurds n iraqi army n militias.
I note that they have 60 flags which fits with http://www.irishcatholic.ie/article/apocalyptic-vision
Some flags are on the list to make up the numbers.
Malta? China? Kosovo? I suspect that we are not just making up the numbers and the risk is real.
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