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GARDAÍ HAVE ARRESTED one man after an early morning incident involving a boat that was said to have been driving erratically on and around the River Liffey and Dublin Port.
RNLI crews and Dublin Fire Brigade units also assisted in apprehending those on the boat.
A garda spokesperson told TheJournal.ie that they believe the boat may have been stolen, and that it was a pleasure boat.
The spokesperson said the boat had been seen driving erratically up and down the River Liffey in the North Wall area.
Dublin Fire Brigade / TwitterA crew frm HQ and our River Rescue boat have assisted @GardaTraffic and @RNLIDunLaoghair in resolving an anti-social incident in Dublin Port pic.twitter.com/6DuOJkOIIE
— Dublin Fire Brigade (@DubFireBrigade) June 1, 2017
A Dun Laoghaire RNLI spokesperson confirmed to TheJournal.ie that it attended the scene as “a number of people were in difficulty” due to an approaching ferry.
The person was then arrested in the North Wall area, gardaí said.
Earlier, there had been traffic delays in that area, with the Dublin Fire Brigade blocking the left lane but that has since been cleared.
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The Gardai haven’t got a boat? Potential security risk right there for anyone who’d steal a boat and drive it up the Liffey with malicious intent…
@Dub_Right: The sub-aqua unit have 15 vessels placed all around the country.
@Dub_Right: Dub, you are never right…..anything to just have a moan about
@Dub_Right: last time that happened the Brits blew holes in the GPO
@Boeing Lover: The Garda Water Unit. It hasn’t been called The Sub Aqua Squad in over 20 years. Just sayin’…….
@Gerry Ivie: sorry Gerry, old habits n’ all that
@Boeing Lover: Ok I get the 787 in the small picture but why is your large picture an Airbus A330?
@Crocodylus Pontifex: i’m a bit of an amateur photographer, that picture of the A330 there is one that Aer Lingus contacted me about to use on their website, it was my first published one so I left it there as a bit of a tribute to it.
@Boeing Lover: It’s a fantastic shot
@Crocodylus Pontifex: thank you
Pleasure boat driven eroticly …
can we not just have a law where anyone stealing a boat or car etc can be shot on sight? I think most would be ok with this plus they wouldn’t do it again.
Whoever was behind the controls should have to pay for the rescue operation. That’s the only way to stop this carry on. Putting their passengers other boat users and rescue teams in harms way should be punishable by fine and the cost of the rescue operation
Any port in a storm eh?
They must have heard about the ice berg
Iceberg as big as Galway on the brink of breaking away into ocean
http://jrnl.ie/3420156
Bloody joy-boaters…
Welcome to Ireland tiger.
What other way do you drive a pleasure boat?
Danger
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