A Google Earth image (top) and scenes today of the halting site on Glenamuck Road, Carrickmines
RTÉ reports:
At least eight people have died in a fire in Carrickmines in Dublin, according to sources.
Emergency services were called to a halting site on Glenamuck Road at around 4am this morning.
It is understood that most if not all the victims were members of two families.
The Irish Traveller Movement has said among those who died in the fire this morning was a man, his wife and their children, who were all under the age of ten.
LIVE: Latest on fatal Dublin fire
Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie and JM.
UPDATE:
Gardaí have confirmed that nine people died in a fire at a halting site in Carrickmines in Dublin.
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) October 10, 2015
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Deepest sympathies to those who loved them.
Terribly sad.
deepest sympathies x
Please remove this despicable comment
agree
we should definitely put more of the homeless into modular housing – will eradicate the homeless problem
I see that the doyenne of news media the journal.ie have had to close the comments on this story. Place is full of racists. I can’t fathom the mentality on that site.
may those people rest In peace, an awful awful tragedy.
we’re all so much better than that
It’s depressing the levels some people stoop too
The Journal is an absolute disgrace. I saw that thread, too. Every time there’s something about Muslims and Travellers and refugees, all sorts of flat out racism is published on their site. People have racist beliefs because they heard them from other people. The Journal seems perfectly ok with their site being used to perpetuate the most disgusting stereotypes of all sorts of sub sects of people.
The Indo and Irish Times are not much better
I tested out the profile of the administrators here by posting something disgusting an hour ago
To be fair they did remove it after about an hour.
While my comment wasn’t racist it was certainly offensive and I suppose I was hoping they’d leave it up and people would attack the comment because they do allow a lot of right wing gibberish posted here. Anyway, fair play in fairness.
Is this another test, the b**llsh!t test?
The Irish Times has the most odd-ball commenters I have ever seen. It’s standard fare for a news story including travellers/muslims are loud mouth ordinary Joe Public types. But the IT seems to have attracted a very specific vindictive and often dogmatic group that seem hell bent on writing wordy insults each other through multiple threads. Freedom of expression be damned I want a janitor with common sense and an IP blocker.
I don’t know, we get that here too
The Journal comment section is a cesspit of hatred and racism with a strong pro-Sinn Fein/IRA bias. Most of the comments seem to be written by illiterate morons.
What a lazy excuse to target Sinn Fein. Are all of Young Fine Gael working overtime now to slur all support for Sinn Fein and other leftist parties? You’re pathetic.
oh ffs, if you’re not pro sinner your young fine Gael
Journal have all the comments left up from before they closed it, but they just want hits to the website to help sell ads
Relieved to say I deleted the Journal app during the week. Comments section just getting more and more depressing.
It’s grim place. I did the same about a year ago. It was a good decision.
Shocking and devastating news for every single person involved. My thoughts are with the heartbroken families and also with the fire-fighters, ambulance paramedics and gardai who responded to the call and fought to save their lives.
I just looked at The Journal thread. It’s not that bad – one person (Fiona deFreyne) is making some valid points but is getting shouted down by the outrage junkies.
It’s interesting to see Rabble are carrying this story seeing as they’ve ignored any news reports that refer to traveller criminality.
“It’s interesting to see Rabble are carrying this story seeing as they’ve ignored any news reports that refer to traveller criminality.”
What are you on about?
The notoriously biased Rabble.ie
Constantly turn a blind eye to crimes committed by minorities
Why are you bringing that up now, you weirdo?
The mask slips. Five children dead, including a baby, and you want to blacken them all as criminals. Dickhead.
No I don’t. Your great leap forward is odious.
it’s not looking good Peter
That’s not what he was saying at all. He was having a dig at rabble.
Custo doesn’t seem to appreciate that there are two possibilities
Peter was blackening all Travellers as criminals AND he was having a dig at Rabble
You’re a very sad person Peter Dempsey. You must hate yourself quite a bit to come out with that kind of commentary.
Truly desperate news.
Heartbreaking to see a family wiped out like that. I hope the survivors aren’t too badly injured.
Devastating loss for the people around them :(
Absolutely horrific news. RIP.
Horrific
A whole family wiped out. I know I hugged my kids that bit tighter and longer after I heard. Words cannot describe the enormity of this tragedy.
Shocking, may they RIP
Just shocking. RIP to them all.
Yes, RIP indeed. Perhaps demonstrate your genuine sympathies by attending the funerals rather than entering a TLA in the comments section of a website any of the bereaved are unlikely to read…
It’s a dark day for some.
But a normal one for you.
Indeed
when you snooze you lose
You have nothing to gain.
Good luck with that.
It’s amazing how angry and so eager and quick to take offence you so-called liberals and hippies are all the time.
…said the person making
-inflammatory- comments
so cheap
so easy
aspire
It’s not that hard.
you have everything
what will you lose
we do what we can
but not stroke our ego on tragedy
There is a time and a place, many times, many places, for your input.
In the real world
Good luck with that.
there are no winners here
Don – ‘If you dont have anything good to say then best to say nothing at all’ would apply here I think.
The fupping irony….
pot kettle black there
you’re a grand wee girl Peter has anyone ever told you that?
Thanks for introducing sexism to the mix there Dan
My condolences to the wider family. Why did it happen?
you’re playing with fire
my sympathy with any human to loose a life dear to them .. rest in peace
That’s a really strange comment as if to say you even extent your sympathy to Travellers because even they are humans?
This country is going to shite with the social apathy towards people who aren’t exactly like yourself.
no my point was all humans deserve respect it was in response to Peter ‘s madness. you couldn’t be further off the mark
Ten people have lost their lives and five of them are children, irespective of what
socio enonomic group or social strata they are entitled to our sympathy…we are
a Republic where are all are equal, while we subscribe to the principle of free speech
perhaps it could be tempered with the understanding that we never speak ill of the dead.
BS, seriously? You’re going to leave that racist nonsense up? What is wrong with you?
they leave Dan Boyle’s stuff up
Travellers are not a separate ‘race’. That notion only serves to give some people a reason to hate them and differentiate them more from other Irish.
Some people really are stupid morons.