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IARNRÓD ÉIREANN HAS announced that they will use trained security dogs to tackle the growing issue of graffiti on trains at depots.
The public transport organisation has partnered with LFK9 Security Ltd to help prevent instances of criminal damage to carriages at stations across the network.
The company provides highly trained security dogs that can sniff out intruders, enabling their handlers to alert Gardaí.
Despite the rate of graffiti incidents dropping last year, it still cost the service €1 million to clean up after vandals, compared to €350,000 worth of removal costs in 2015.
Roughly 100 instances of graffiti on trains were reported in 2024, according to Iarnród Éireann.
Chief Mechanical Engineer with Iarnród Éireann, Peter Smyth said that graffiti of the organisation’s trains remains “a major problem”.
“It takes time away from regular maintenance regimes and ultimately inconveniences our customers, when trains are out of service,” Smyth said.
“We are busier than ever and need every carriage we have out on the network. I am extremely encouraged about this security dog initiative so far and hope that it will prevent many needless acts of vandalism against our rolling stock.
The first success of the new initiative happened on 26 December at Fairview, where the dog sniffed out an intruder with a large bag of spray cans trying to breach the perimeter fence.
Gardaí were alerted and gave chase, and no graffiti occurred on that occasion.
“I would like to commend An Garda Síochána for their diligence in bringing vandals to justice and I am confident that we will have convictions from the cases that are pending before the courts,” Symth said.
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Poisoned chalice…party is in terminal decline.
Insignificant development.
Now that media call centralist parties “Far Right” would that make SDLP far left ?
All the best Claire. The SDLP are among the most reasonable and humane voices in politics right now when it comes to Israeli war crimes. The wholly indiscriminate and opportunistic obliteration of innocent people by the sociopaths in charge of Israel is barbarism on steroids. Nothing justifies the collective punishment they are gleefully meeting out to people who have done nothing wrong, apart from living in the unluckiest of postcodes.
Debacle envisaged in no uncertain times.
Rember Merry horney 2005 Prgressive Democrats.
Another part of Fianna Fáil and part of the Irish Labour Party in the North. Say no more, their influence in British politics is completely irrelevant. As the one time a Northern Ireland Political Party got the grip of power they humiliated the People of the Mainland U.K. , the British Prime Minister and Everyone on the Island of Ireland with their shameful policies.
That party was the DUP , The PM was Theresa May and guess what the British electorate will make sure a party like DUP from Ireland (according to the British people) will never get a mandate to govern the mainland U.K. ever again.
@Tommy: everyone is better off, thanks to Fianna Fail
@Brendan’s Mother: yeah with record homelessness, hospital waiting lists, most expensive homes, highest rents, lack of Special needs school places, most expensive hospital, bike shed and security huts. Fianna Fáil and government parties are really playing a blinder for sure. Playing the population as blind!!!!
@Brendan’s Mother: Hi Brendan’s mother, great to see you made it from just being a contact on the Ouja Board to joining us here in person, welcome. Can you let us know if Fintan & the boys are all ok, there are a lot of weirdos out there you know with massive fishing rods.
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