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PASSENGERS AT DUBLIN Airport have been told they “should be prepared” to remove hoodies or loose jumpers when passing through security screenings.
In a post on X, Dublin Airport said passengers should “remove the top and place it in the tray for screening”.
Dublin Airport’s website notes that “any oversized garments, which may conceal additional items or the outline of your person, will have to be removed for security screening”.
Passengers should be prepared to remove any hoodies or loose oversize jumpers or sweaters when going through security screening. Please remove the top and place it in the tray for screening.
— Dublin Airport (@DublinAirport) February 2, 2024
More advice on preparing for security ⏩ https://t.co/Z7v0gXA9VS pic.twitter.com/OnLwnqP6sO
However, the announcement appears to have taken the public by surprise, with one user on X asking what happens if someone is “wearing just a bra underneath?”
“Do I still have to remove my hoodie?”, continued the post.
Dublin Airport’s account replied: “All passengers should be prepared to remove their hoodie when they reach security screening.”
However, a later post from Dublin Airport’s account noted that “private screenings/hand searches can be an option too”.
When pressed on this by other users, who queried “what is the threat from hoodies”, Dublin Airport said: “We do not set the rules, we simply enforce them to ensure the safety of passengers and staff.”
Few people seemed to be aware of the rule, and when asked why it was being enforced now, Dublin Airport said the “regulations have been tightened recently regarding this”.
Meanwhile, Dublin Airport said the roll-out of new x-ray scanners that will end the need to remove laptops and liquids from cabin baggage is continuing in both terminals.
Dublin Airport expects to host around 340,000 passengers over the coming St Brigid’s Day bank holiday weekend.
Between today and Monday, around 172,000 people will fly out of the airport, with 168,000 due to arrive.
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Maybe focus on passengers actually having a passport when disembarking…
@Sickof thisshit: poor you, you haven’t used the airport for decades… they have these things called immigration booths.
@Sickof thisshit: It’s not security that checks passports.Seems like you haven’t been through an airport in last 20 years
@Sickof thisshit: don’t stress SF have promised to build houses for everyone in the country that needs a house so the airport will have to be knocked down I’m afraid to make way for a new Ballymun…..and anyway ya can still use shoe laces to strangle someone so ….so if it was actually about security and wanting to protect people it would be fine but its not its just about monkey see monkey do and box ticking …. just because other countries do it daa feel they have to follow the crowd….
@Sickof thisshit: It’s a joke really when you think about it? Need documentation , presumably with the appropriate visa, to board, then it’s nowhere to be found on disembarkation . It’s been going on for years at this stage. We must be the laughing stock of the world at this stage,
@Nickb: they identify, register and fingerprint incoming migrants. Done by Europol, European Border Agency, and EUAA. And entered into Eurodac system. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/151/asylum-policy
So it doesn’t matter if they don’t have documentation.
@SFmeansShyte4free: commenter above has a legitimate question.
@Nickb: It is happening all over the world. Not just here!
@Sickof thisshit: security and passport control are two different areas of the airport: security happens before flight. Passport control after landing and before entering the country. Not travelled much, have you?
Travelled recently, going through security seven times at different airports, and this was the requirement in each of them.
@Aidan Boland: It’s not unreasonable. After all it a security check for all our benefits. Theresa always some whinger who can’t see the bigger picture
@Aidan Boland: but you do need a passport. So is it just that, “you heard”. Gossip.
@Aidan Boland:….but what if you’re just wearing a bra underneath?…….asking for a friend
@Patrick MC Dermott: yeah what with all the planes that had brought down by a hoodies. Every week I watch the latest air crash investigation and it always end the same way, turns out some bloke used a hoodie to take control of the plane. Sure it was a hoodie that caused those MAX planes to fall out of the sky
@Martin Mongan: Are you on drugs?
Will the burqa have to be removed ???
Antagonistic reporting, no? Get your passport out, your boarding pass out. Take off your coats and hats, hoodies included. What exactly is the need to report that patently obvious?
@Oh Mammy: when was the last time you went through airport security?
This will disproportionately affect our welfare scroungers heading to Turkey for teeth veneers!
If everyone is happy to see me walking though security in a bra then I dont care. Although I have a feeling seeing that would make them rethink this rule they’re suddenly so interested in enforcing
@Harley Barbie: it would be like dollymount beach so,
Maybe a dress code is being introduced… then it’ll be like the old days with people dressing up to go on the plane. That’d be nice, instead of everyone dressing like adolescents.
@Garbhán Ó Ruis: yeah I’m going to start wearing a suit getting in the plane. Wise up
@Garbhán Ó Ruis: ok Grandpa
@Garbhán Ó Ruis: come on grandpa
Yes always should have been in force. They can compare their passport photo to the passenger. If they dont have one they can just walk unhindered to the dept of social protection and the housing agency
Stone age security screening system, why not just spend money on a decent one and keep people flowing
@aidan martin: Dublin has among the state of the art security systems. Then again that’s behind the scenes stuff
Oversized jumpers, what if people don’t want to show off their figures with tight tops
@Clare Maurer: also some people with autism will only wear loose tops as tight clothes cause sensory issues
@Kenneth Mitchell: Correct. So where is the problem on removing the loose top for a few minutes?
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: if someone is wearing nothing / very little/ revealing clothing underneath – ever think of that – huh?.
They may not feel comfortable. Silly fckn rule that’s gonna create even more delays.
Already walk thru a security scanner. Why not use a body scanner instead of this silly stuff…..
I mean if you wear baggy pants / cargo trousers – the same reasoning applies but you don’t have to take them off…or skirts / dresses for that matter..
Who comes up with this sh t?
@UK Hurling Bloke: would rather a delay than someone getting a bomb on a plane
@Kenneth Mitchell: And that can be easy explained with a sunflower lanyard and those passenger’s will be with the customer assistance team.
Stop trying to use disability as an excuse. People with disabilities are able to manage the system that is in place in the airports in this country.
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Some people with autism manage by doing things a certain way, repeated patterns of behavior. You take clothes off in certain places for example, and only there.Taking off clothes in the airport is not a thing they would have done and if made to. It could cause them great distress and trigger them in to an emotional overload!
@SFmeansShyte4free: even if you’re an asylum seeker you need one. You saying these guys jump onto an airplane without one?
@casio shock: No, but they jump off without one.
Legally is this correct. Curious.
My son had his dreadlocks searched in Dublin Airport. I’ve no idea what they thought they were looking for.
@Jimmy Wallace: Brilliant Jimmy! LOL
@Padraig O’Brien: Bob Marley was prevented once from bringing food on an airplane. They were doughnuts. With jam in.
@Larry Betts: in fairness they stopped the wailers as well. They had jamin too!
This is not news or unusual. No hoodies in any airport in my experience.
Nothing new thete. I was asked to remove jackets 35 years ago. A non-story.
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: “hoodie” JFGI ffs gramps
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: this is not what they’re talking about here, Sean
So someone asked the question “ What if I only have a Bra on underneath” the same person probably going for a sun holiday wearing a Bikini with an almost nothing bottom on it. It is security for everones protection.
This requirement is so that security CCTV can identify arriving passengers.
stop moaning.. they are not asking just for the craic…
Lookit. I would be, and historically have been, an advocate if not a vehement campaigner for the full and unfettered and uniform Rights of all Citizens across the European Union, to be free to wear any pieces of clothing they choose in any fashion they choose to wear it. Wearing knickers on yer head in the public street should never attract the attentions of police in any Nation in Europe. End of story!
…that is ….unless….you are not wearing a second and seperate pair of knickers on yer arse – in which case, I’m sorry, but you *are* committing a Criminal Offence and *are* inviting a Justified arrest.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have also historically been opposed to the hysterics of the daft yankees with regard to truly OTT hyper-security with shampoo and whatnot. *And their neo-anti-Semitic neo-Fascism* towards Arabs, in “white” Airports, as a consequence of them yankees being on the recieving end of a comeuppence they invited unto themselves and are currently asking for, right now, yet again.
However, I also have historically and consistently understood and accepted the obvious necessity of potential on-body smuggling being visable to security within an airport. Metalheads and Goths have taken off boots, belts, chokers and all sorts of metals for many-a-decade, before going through scanners. Because knives or blades could be concealed alongside a seemingly innocent, merely metal-studded, belt.
And what of it?!
They chose to accept the consequence of what they were wearing from Festivals to and through Airports, be it New Rocks or studded belts/chokers or whatever. Whatever you wear to fly, you are actively choosing what kind of searches you are more likely to be subjected to.
Equally Muslim women who choose to wear either Hijab or Niqab accept that a same-gender, private room, pat down is inevitable.
Frankly, yer being a bit ridiculous if you are creating a hysterical problem out of a simple and logical request.
Dublin Airport simply forgot to underline the word “prepared”.
Be *prepared*.
A worthy Scout motto.
“Be prepared” means – wear a top under yer hoody hun!!
Just pop to Penny’s for a tank top before you pop off on yer hols!
Simples!
Kewl da jets lads!
Not the airplane jets tho!
They’re not demanding ya strip naked in public like!
But you could….if you wanted
….only…well…..you will probably be, Justifiably, arrested for exposing yerself (…again).
I do not, however, accept the transferring of this sort of clothing-related targeting onto the public streets, as happens in France. Prohibiting clothing, especially as it pertains to Religious Freedoms, is a blatant attack on ALL our European Rights.
And sets [or has set] a Fascistic precedent.
But I am disappointed that the SinnFéin-PBP-SocialDemocrats Opposition bloc have failed, and continue to fail, to propose a decades overdue complete ban on Balaklavas.
Including for all Gardaí, unless and until deployed in full Riot Gear.
Not for Public Order.
And certainly not during despicable Recession-era enforcement of evictions – regardless of the circumstances of conflict between Landlord and Tenant, or Homeowner and Bank.
Balaklavas but also…
Ski masks [Motorbike helmet exception?].
And Snoods [dusty/baltic work site exception].
And Medical masks [Pandemic exception].
No reason why snoods, ski masks and face masks *worn in tandem with* hoodies, should not be restricted from use in public areas.
Or perhaps more specifically: in public areas *during a public assembly* of 3 or more persons.
Obviously items that cover the face that are of well established Ethnic Cultural Identity and/or Religious, should not be banned on public streets. Except where there is the formation of a sizeable assembly of similarly attired. A certain National scarf should be the exception, not the rule, and each individual seeking to wear it across the face, during a public assembly, for privacy-security-safety reasons should be willing to disclose to Stewards of the assembly, why they may be concerned that they may be at greater risk from foreign targeting than others assembled.
After all, the fact is, none of we supposedly “safe” Nations of Refuge and Shelter are actually capable of protecting those fleeing Political persecution and oppression. The fact that a citizen of Hong Kong was kidnapped into a Chinese Consulate in Britain, or that Chinese Communist Party Police Stations were operating in multille Nations – including Ireland – undetected, just says it all.
To this day – still no investigation by Gardaí nor in-person welfare checks nor verification or follow-up with Irish Residents who “returned” to China or Hong Kong during, before or since Pandemic or any time preceding discovery of these Stations of Oppressive Operatives.
But otherwise. Balaklavas lads.
I mean how the hell did *Ireland*, of all Nations, fail to nip that one in the bud in the immediate aftermath of the GFA Peace Agreement??
Unbelievable!!
@Pink Freud: There’s no answer to that.
@Pink Freud: TLDR
Why would a terrorist bother blowing up an aircraft with a couple of hundred people on board. Detonate it in the queue for so called security where many hundreds will be during the summer. No security on tubes or buses in London, why would they need to, oh yeah 7/7.
When flying from Morocco to Dublin some years ago, the privacy of ladies in burqa’s were respected yet ladies who were not wearing burqa’s were too often stopped and searched from what I witnessed first hand of my time in the queue. It both disgusted and angered me that there were double standards being applied risking security while being completely unfair.
Please spare me the look at it.
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