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GARDAI ARE ALLOCATING a significant number of additional public order unit members for tonight’s match against the North after new intelligence suggested hardline loyalists may attend the friendly.
Multiple sources have confirmed to TheJournal.ie that additional members of the unit will be dispatched to areas across the city as well as around and in the Aviva Stadium itself.
Only a few hundred fans from across the border are expected to attend the game but intelligence passed on from the PSNI to gardaí has shown that some well-known troublemakers intend on coming to the match.
As a result of this intelligence, garda management has deployed a significant number of additional units to Ballsbridge and its environs for this evening. Extra resources will also be in place in Dublin city centre after the match.
Plain clothes as well as undercover gardaí will be in place, as is standard practice. However, undercover gardaí will be briefed about those individuals that the intelligence has suggested will be coming to the city today.
The Garda Air Support Unit and the dog unit will also be deployed this evening.
A Section 21 Public Order Act direction will also be in place. This means that officers will be allowed search anyone within a mile of the Aviva Stadium.
Both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland will be given a garda escort to the stadium.
The FAI and the IFA have been putting on a unified front ahead of the game – with members from each team taking part in charity events together.
Players from the two first teams visited Crumlin children’s hospital on Tuesday where they met some of the patients.
Responding to queries, a garda spokesman said: “An Garda Síochána do not comment on security issues.”
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Their “No Surrender” song will be deeply ironic after Theresa May’s capitulation yesterday.
@Alan Conroy: I for one would like to welcome our northern brothers and sisters to their capital city.
@Alan Conroy: No surrender was the war cry of the first Cork brigade :-)
@Alan Conroy: Hardly a capitulation, she’s realistic and is doing what she can to make the best of a bad situation.
Fomenting division does us no good, all you’re doing is painting us to be as hateful as the Unionists believe us to be when the vast majority of us are not.
Maybe you should leave the bad blood where it belongs, in the past.
Hope we give our friends from the north a proper welcome.
@Peter Kiernan: Set the dogs on any trouble makers
Their in for a shock when they find out the that Dublin is not a papist slums like their Belfast & home towns.. & in the South have really motorways, booming economy and are much much rich than them.. and they can’t afford a pint :-) thanks to EU membership & hard work.. Perhaps that might start them thinking what is it they are loyalist too ???
@TheJeff: really motorways and much much rich? You texting from an early house sir?
@Stephen Boland: wow, such motorway
@TheJeff: Very road, much tarmac
@Stephen Boland:
Yes Motorway something they don’t have in the North !.. also by any measure we in the South are much much richer.. have you driven to Belfast are been in Belfast ? #Dump
@TheJeff: I don’t know if you guys missed that there’s motorway up to and past Belfast. It’s far from the kip you guys are trying to make it out to be.
If you’re going to be ignorant, at least try to be believable.
@Patrick Kearns: don’t let facts get in the way of much story, very craic.
@TheJeff: talking shit
Hardline Loyalists is a nice name for soccer hooligans is it?
@Picture This: More like soccer hooligans is a nice name for hardline loyalists
Nothing that a few rubber bullets won’t sort out !
A few rotten apples
@BarronVonVaderHam:
A few rotten oranges, surely?
@Féach News: LOL! ; )
@Féach News: lol, I set ye up nicely there!
The timing of this match couldn’t be worse.
@Jane: you must be new around here
Same old shite from the grandfathers of the KKK.
@DaisyMay: The peep o’ day boys.
Hillbillies originated from Our lovely polite Northern brothers
Flase “A Section 21 Public Order Act direction will also be in place. This means that officers will be allowed search anyone within a mile of the Aviva Stadium.” Completely false . This act only allows barriers to be set up to restrict access up to a mile away. Does not give a general power to search people
@John Murphy: Ah but Shure it’s Ireland. Make them up as we go aye
@John Murphy: section 22 gives a power of search following the section 21 direction
I would love to be a guard with a baton tonight..
@munsterman: hard man alert
Hope they bring our good friend Willie Frazer with them Would really like to ‘meet’ him….
“Only a few hundred fans from across the border are expected to attend the game” – I’d say there’ll only be a few hundred from this side of the border too.
The editor for this piece needs his position placed under review. Sure just let every little scrote in inner city Dublin know…. “sure head up the Aviva direction tonight lads, ye might get a ruck”. Very irresponsible “journalism”
@Nigel Mcatamney: why would scrotes head into a nest of Gardai?
Let them come, the Garda need the practice since its been a while since the Lansdowne killings.
Friendly?
I live 3 minutes away, so I will put the kettles on.
And get out the plasters and Dettol… I’d better go and donate blood if it’s going to be like that.
On their way on the day of the Ballymurphy Massacre inquest, 47 years murdered 11 unarmed Irish citizens in Belfast, 6 months before they did the same in Derry:
They came down before these “Hardline loyalists” and look what happened… Ran out of it.
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