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Russian troops leave Chernobyl 'after radiation exposure’, says Ukraine power company

There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin.

RUSSIAN TROOPS BEGAN leaving the Chernobyl nuclear plant after soldiers got “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches at the highly contaminated site, Ukraine’s state power company has aid.

Energoatom, the company, gave no immediate details on the condition of the troops or how many were affected.

But it said the Russians had dug in in the forest inside the exclusion zone around the now-closed plant, the site in 1986 of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

The troops “panicked at the first sign of illness”, which “showed up very quickly,” and began to prepare to leave, Energoatom said.

There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin.

Its forces seized the Chernobyl site in the opening stages of the 24 February invasion, raising fears that they would cause damage or disruption that could spread radiation.

The workforce at the site oversees the safe storage of spent fuel rods and the concrete-entombed ruins of the exploded reactor.

The pullout came amid continued fighting and indications that the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine is seeing “a build-up of Russian forces for new strikes on the Donbas, and we are preparing for that”.

Meanwhile, a convoy of buses headed to Mariupol in another bid to evacuate people from the besieged port city after the Russian military agreed to a limited ceasefire in the area.

And a new round of talks aimed at stopping the fighting was scheduled for tomorrow.

The Red Cross said its teams were headed for Mariupol with medical supplies and other relief and hoped to take civilians out of the beleaguered city.

Tens of thousands have managed to get out of Mariupol in the past few weeks by way of humanitarian corridors, reducing the city’s population from a pre-war 430,000 to an estimated 100,000 as of last week, but other efforts have been thwarted by continued Russian attacks.

At the same time, Russian forces shelled Kyiv suburbs, two days after the Kremlin announced it would significantly scale back operations near both the capital and the northern city of Chernihiv to “increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations”.

Britain’s Defence Ministry also reported “significant Russian shelling and missile strikes” around Chernihiv. The area’s governor, Viacheslav Chaus, said Russian troops were on the move but may not be withdrawing.

Russia’s military also reported new strikes on Ukrainian fuel stores late yesterday, and Ukrainian officials said there were artillery barrages in and around the north-eastern city of Kharkiv over the past day.

Despite the fighting raging in those areas, the Russian military said it committed to a ceasefire along the route from Mariupol to the Ukraine-held city of Zaporizhzhia.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said 45 buses would be sent to collect civilians who have suffered some of the worst privations of the war.

Food, water and medical supplies have all run low during a weekslong blockade and bombardment of the city. Civilians who have managed to leave have typically done so using private cars, but the number of drivable vehicles left in the city has dwindled and fuel is low.

“It’s desperately important that this operation takes place,” the Red Cross said in a statement. “The lives of tens of thousands of people in Mariupol depend on it.”

Talks between Ukraine and Russia were set to resume tomorrow by video, according to the head of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arakhamia, six weeks into a war that has seen thousands die and a staggering four million Ukrainians flee the country.

But there seemed little faith that the two sides would resolve the conflict any time soon, particularly after the Russian military’s attacks in zones where it had offered to dial back.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that conditions were not yet “ripe” for a cease-fire in Ukraine and that he was not ready for a meeting with Zelenskyy until negotiators do more work, Italian Premier Mario Draghi said in recounting a telephone conversation he had with the Russian leader yesterday.

Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said alliance intelligence indicates that Russia is not scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead trying to regroup, resupply its forces and reinforce its offensive in the Donbas.

“Russia has repeatedly lied about its intentions,” Stoltenberg said. At the same time, he said, pressure is being kept up on Kyiv and other cities, and “we can expect additional offensive actions bringing even more suffering”.

The Donbas is the predominantly Russian-speaking industrial region where Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces since 2014.

In the past few days, the Kremlin, in a seeming shift in its war aims, said that its “main goal” now is gaining control of the Donbas, which consists of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including Mariupol.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:55 AM

    Where did Gardai get their Intel from????…

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:57 AM

    Inside

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:03 AM

    Haswell then, I’m sure they’ll get to the core of it in pentium time and they can take the culprits to the broadwell for processing.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:05 AM

    Yes! Brilliant!

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:06 AM

    Alan, you couldn’t follow the first one. It was never going to happen for you :(

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:13 AM

    Skynet has become selfaware at 06:30 am.

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    Mute Euro McPúnty
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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:25 AM

    Someone with a chip on their shoulder

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    Mute Mark Lillis
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    Jan 13th 2015, 10:15 AM

    They should just build an Ivy Bridge and get over it!

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    Mute Paddy Hannigan
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    Jan 13th 2015, 4:53 PM

    Maybe it was a logic bomb ?

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    Mute Michael Kennedy
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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:09 AM

    As per normal people joke about it here but given that several thousand were due on site and the array of chemicals it is a serious matter. Better to be on the cautious side that risk so many.

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    Mute Stephen Blake
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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:35 AM

    Exactly! I got red thumbed for similar comments

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    Mute Stephen Blake
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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:09 AM

    And you are privy to this how? I’m all for a joke normally like. I work there… Ye haven’t a clue of the internal workings of intel. It is a massive chemical plant. There are approx 2500 people working there at present. If something went off it would not be pretty. If 2500 got killed then who Wud be a muppet? I apologise for being square and coming across as a “Muppet” and I understand freedom of speech etc and I enjoy d puns and double meanings normally within The Journal (they are normally better than the articles) but there is genuine concern in Leixlip this morning.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 10:12 AM

    Totally agree. Massive project/risk management example. Despite the hilarious jokes (I mean it!) – good job Intel Security and Emergency Response Team! As an employee I prefer to know I am relatively safe and if there is anything to be done in order to increase my chances – it is done in the best way. Respect.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 2:44 PM

    Any Heptane on sight..usually goes with a bang…

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:41 AM

    Je suis Intel

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:29 AM

    Knob

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    Mute David Kelleher
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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:56 AM

    Freedom of speech and all that. Get over it, everyone had been evacuated when I made the comment so no need to be a drama queen.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 10:32 AM

    David Kelleher, 10/10, ***** and a big A+

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    Jan 13th 2015, 11:00 AM

    Do you work in Intel David to know everyone had been evacuated??

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    Jan 13th 2015, 11:27 AM

    No, but the lovely lady in the Journal had stated it here. You’re a sensitive soul chief. Some craic on a night out in say!

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    Jan 13th 2015, 11:47 AM

    you seem to know more than me and im a manager here in Intel, don’t believe everything you read in the papers soft lad

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    Jan 13th 2015, 12:30 PM

    I bow to your superior knowledge. Over and Out ‘hard lad’

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    Jan 13th 2015, 3:38 PM

    Lance get back to work and don’t be dossing in the jacks on your phone!!!!

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:39 AM

    Someone didn’t get a HOT WORKS PERMIT

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    Jan 13th 2015, 10:47 AM

    I just don’t want to see any extremist/terror attack in this country.as a Muslim (not a good one), don’t care about any religion or anything.
    All psycho, stay far from this country.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:48 AM

    We’ve been told it’s a bomb scare.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:53 AM

    Weird, I was only reading yesterday that Intel is on the Garda watchlist as a potential target here in Ireland.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:12 AM

    No access into the plant, I’m away home. See you tomorrow leixlip mate. Sweet.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:56 AM

    Ah day off school, deadly buzz.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:22 AM

    No commitment from you

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:48 AM

    Balls, thought I’d have the full day off.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 10:06 AM

    Are you construction? I thought most lads where sent home earlier on?

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    Jan 13th 2015, 1:00 PM

    Tenner says I know who made the phone call….

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:53 AM

    Not a joking matter. We are outside and it must be serious if everyone is evacuated and people are stopped going in. If there was a bomb here it would be a big radius of a wipeout.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:57 AM

    It couldn’t be a bomb, sure didn’t Charlie Flanagan say we’re grand!

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:50 AM

    Love to see them get inside the Dail’s security cordon with a live…

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:52 AM

    Freedom of expression means being able to joke about a serious matter. Get used to it.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:21 AM

    Depends on the size of the device, now if you are aware of the size of the blast radius perhaps you planted it

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    Jan 13th 2015, 10:48 AM

    Some lunatic who obviously read yesterday’s Star newspaper who ran Intel as a site that could be attacked by terrorists.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:37 AM

    Frank is busy preparing his False Flag theory for this one!!!!

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:04 AM

    Take the number 3, a powerful, magical, mystical and significant number, then add 3. What do you get? 6! How many letters in leixlip? 6! The numbers don’t lie!

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:11 AM

    Ah… Is there not 7?

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:11 AM

    Errrrr!!………..1,2,3,4,5,6,7,……………….

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:32 AM

    Eh yes, I was having a go at Frank and his imaginative mathematics.

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    Mute William Boyd
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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:58 AM

    Frank
    11 hours ago # 78 26
    Munster2014_ I posted a link from the BBC
    Did you even read look at the f***ing article
    You constantly accuse me of posting conspiracy and propaganda material and when I produce something “legit” you dismiss it.
    John Rowan_ Edited: this thread is a discussion for those that don’t think outside the box.,
    BTW its past your bed time”

    Frank posted the above last night on another thread,

    “You constantly accuse me of posting conspiracy and propaganda material and when I produce something “legit” you dismiss it.”

    So is Frank admitting that most of what he posts is not legit just delusions?, it seems Frank doesn’t know if he’s coming or going, as for the supposed legit BBC link? laughable!.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 10:06 AM

    Franks anal stalkers are insatiable…..vous êtes Frank!

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    Jan 13th 2015, 10:17 AM

    Numbers are lying now ya dumbass

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:44 AM

    Any update?

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:13 AM

    reports from staff of bomb threat. whole place on lock down

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:08 AM

    Hope ya have ur laptop steve you can set up office with us on maxol

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:17 AM

    Haha…. Cheers! :-)

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:49 AM

    Mystery is on a building site at Intel and is saying its a bomb scare.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:50 AM

    Mystery = my mate

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:44 AM

    Jimi Mystery?

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:45 AM

    Cool name, tell Mystery to stay safe and keep us updated

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:49 AM

    Mr E?

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:49 AM

    Someone claiming to be from Islamic group ISIL said 12 bombs were planted there.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 10:29 AM

    Are you sure that he wasn’t from the Tallaght Band?

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    Jan 13th 2015, 10:31 AM

    Wasn’t that factory one of a list of “soft targets” mentioned in some of yesterdays papers?

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:52 AM

    Some fella didn’t feel like going to work today. Sick days look bad but he can’t be blamed for a bomb scare!

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:41 AM

    A cow or a sheep probably broke through a fence onto the property

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:41 AM

    Wheres Frank, to make sense of it all.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:49 AM

    Just got word. It’s actually Frank inside

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    Jan 13th 2015, 1:07 PM

    Maybe frank actually got a hobby!

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    Jan 13th 2015, 2:13 PM

    Frank is typing furiously into a calculator at the moment. Once he links this to some innocuous event 8888 days ago, he’ll be in touch.

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    Jan 14th 2015, 6:12 AM

    Frank is a legend in his own subconscious

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:40 AM

    I blame ISIS

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:42 AM

    Good man mike u will get a job at sky!!!

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:51 AM

    While the likes of you will stay unemployed. Good luck

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:51 AM

    fox news

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:00 AM

    That’s it Emer, some people like paul and country folk are a little slow……bless……

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:18 AM

    Well, someone skipped breakfast…

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    Jan 13th 2015, 2:03 PM

    ISIS? The Industrial Skivers Irish Society?

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    Jan 13th 2015, 7:56 AM

    Probably a virus

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:48 AM

    This is a cheap response to Enda’s swanning around Paris to get cheap press coverage from RTE.
    We have so many foreigners in Ireland now that some of them are bound to be ISIS supporters.
    Dublin Airport etc. next port of false call.?

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:13 AM

    Tit

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:50 AM

    Didn’t a certain newspaper highlight a few potential targets for Jihadi’s in Ireland the Intel plant been one of them.

    So probably some prank call.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:26 AM

    Hope yous had time to grab your jackets

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:44 AM

    We do this to get off school all the time

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:27 AM

    Ladies and gentlemen…….our future.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 10:00 AM

    Lighten up Jason and all the other red thumb brigade.
    She’s just a kid.
    I would have posted similar at her age.

    Take no notice Niamh.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 1:16 PM

    Brian, if you took a sec, you’d see I was joking.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 3:11 PM

    Thanks for clarifying Jason.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:35 AM

    Someone get fired recently?

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    Jan 13th 2015, 1:15 PM

    Thankfully it wasn’t a real threat. Fair play to everyone involved with securing and evacuating the site. By far, it’s not the easiest task to do.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:53 PM

    As a former Intel employee I can confirm that we were all made well aware of our status as potential targets. I worked at the site in Shannon which is in the flight line for Shannon Airport. Less than a week after 9/11 there was an Arabic man outside our building taking photos, it turned out he was legit, but our facilities manager chased him down & brought him to the Gardai before his legitimacy was confirmed.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 10:15 AM

    Obviously someone with a chip on their shoulder

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    Jan 13th 2015, 10:06 AM

    You would wonder if the systems are being tested for a full scale attack in the future as they did in NI before a first proper attack

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:07 AM

    Was it the Mexicans?

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    Jan 13th 2015, 10:12 AM

    So sleeeepy, essay!!

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    Jan 13th 2015, 1:43 PM

    How convenient!? Ok so what made the threat ‘credible’ ? Please show us the evidence of that? How come nothing was found then and do they really expect us to believe this!?!?
    People of Ireland..dont fall for this absolute scaremingering and agenda engineering

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    Jan 13th 2015, 1:59 PM

    Tinfoil hat

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    Jan 13th 2015, 3:03 PM

    Well, when you receive a call from an anonymous entity saying there are explosives planted on the Intel site and you will have potentially 3-4 thousand people on this site, with enough chems and gases on this site to provide us with a mini Hiroshima, would you take this threat seriously, regardless of how credible you could deem it at the time??
    I’m not trying to debunk your theory, I don’t want a stupid internet conspiracy argument I’m just putting that simple question to you!

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    Jan 14th 2015, 6:39 PM

    for yourself is it pete ? The caller had an Irish accent and sounded like a teenager according to reports and they call it a credible threat……

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    Jan 14th 2015, 6:40 PM

    I would agree with you Peter Fitz , but from reports a teenager with an Irish Accent…..how could that be credible ?

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    Jan 14th 2015, 9:40 PM

    Correct JB,
    I’ve heard that it was also from a payphone in Balbriggan (hilarious I know) but this is a hindsight view now. Intel’s officials weren’t made aware of this at the time however. Even if it was made aware, they’ll take the negative side every time. Christ they won’t let you climb a ladder without a medical from NASA ha! But when it comes to a 7 billion dollar fab, thousands of lives and the surrounding area they’ll seriously go as far as pushing the question “What if it were a young Irish teen who converted, and wanted to uphold ISIL’s honour ??” As was stated on the phone. I’d say there’ll be more of this crap at Intel!! I suppose how do they draw the line as to what’s credible when they’ve no real experiences to reference them to! There was another scare once but I wasn’t working there then.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:36 AM

    I bet it was a disgruntled, drunk, ex employee with a mental disorder. Or kids messing.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:08 AM

    Mike the Anchorman = Ape

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:18 AM

    Says someone from doonbeg. lol. I feel sorry for you. You look like an ape in that picture…..

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    Jan 13th 2015, 11:48 AM

    Will someone please think of the children!

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    Jan 13th 2015, 8:12 PM

    Rumour is it was a lad who was all set for a snow day, re watch House of Cards before Season 3… snow didn’t arrive this morning but didn’t want to change his plans…..

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:51 AM

    Thankfully getting up mad early was not part of today’s plans. That traffic would have made a sh!te of everything. Oh and that it was a hoax too… or was it?

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    Jan 14th 2015, 3:44 AM

    You can be sure if it was an actual Islamic group there would be no phone warning.
    Once went for an interview out there. Got there in plenty of time but managed to get myself lost on the campus. Didn’t have the balls to go in late and tell them why so just went home.

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    Jan 13th 2015, 1:59 PM

    Where or who made the threat!

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    Jan 14th 2015, 1:19 AM

    Velly ‘INTELesting’.

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    Jan 14th 2015, 12:39 PM

    U push a button the alarm sounds everybody leaves simple . They also said the place was sweeped and declared safe bullshit to take nothing away from the ert they didn’t even know what they were looking for . The plant is so vast it would be impossible to declare it safe and also we were all evacuated across the road if there was an explosion we were all dead

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    Jan 14th 2015, 6:37 PM

    The guy was supposed to have an Irish accent and sounded like a teenager and they call it a credible threat…….WTF?

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    Jan 13th 2015, 9:07 AM

    Is it Mercury rising

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