A Soviet-era 82mm mortar launcher
This afternoon.
Via RTÉ:
The discovery was made after a courier was stopped after he arrived into Dublin Port at around 2am. When the car was checked an 82mm mortar launcher was found in the back.
The Bomb Disposal Team confirmed the weapon was an old Soviet mortar. The area was declared safe at around 5.30am and gardaí have since removed the mortar for technical examination. The driver told gardaí she was delivering the mortar to a collector in Northern Ireland.
Breaking Woman arrested after mortar launcher found at Dublin Port (RTÉ)
Pic: International Military Museum
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Progress at least.
50 years ago there would have been an Irish cabinet minister involved …
Whereas
not 30 years ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/loyalists-defiant-after-huge-weapons-seizure-1506572.html
Why does it look like a model?
Defo looks like a model.
Has to be a model
It might be a photography issue, due to the type lens used or exposure.
the caption does say ‘A Soviet-era 82mm mortar launcher’, not The.
it does look like something out of an Airfix set.
Sorry, fixed now. It was a model.
A mortar being delivered to a nordy? There’s a first.
a ‘collector’. indeed.
They haven’t gone away you know.
there was until very very recently a loophole in the UK which allowed prospective purchasers of weaponry to bypass all the licencing requirements if they could prove the device in question was an antique, no messing.
apparently ownership of functional WW2 gear over yonder is rife
twas only very recently addressed, literally a couple of weeks back, perhaps this little parcel only just got snared due to present logistics delays….
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-closes-antique-firearms-loopholes-to-protect-public
from your link:
“The regulations do not apply in Northern Ireland as firearms policy is devolved”
Neither have the Unionist, anti-Irish, fascist tendencies of your Blusehirt mates in Fine Gael. Imagine a party who hates its people so much that it denies them €19b to show favour to the richest company in the world. Nasty people.
This is only one example of the risk and sacrifice brave Irishmen made to liberate their country from British colonisation. God bless them all. Thats why they are respected and admired.
Interesting to see Broadsheet [editing potentially libellous] comments about Lord Mountbatten [alleged] pedophilia. [The allegations are] well documented so I don’t know the reason.
So remind us now why a mortar needs to be delivered to the nordies, and what has Mountbatten got anything to do with this story exception for deflection. Go on – who pays you Queen, or the republic (or our country as you like to call it down south)?
Mortars needed to be delivered to fight the thousands of armed soldiers, tanks, armoured cars and paramilitary forces like UDA, UFF etc.
They wanted to liberate the Nordies like we liberated the south. It was always going to take guns seeing as it was the brits. They started it so to speak…
Is that clear?
No absolutely not. Why did you have to shoot people of other religions, people who didn’t agreed with you, rob banks, shoot guards? Is that clear? “We” liberated the south? The Ra liberated the south – did they f.
Go on – who pays you Queen, or the republic (or our country as you like to call it down south)?
Read your history. The answers are there. The army had to be fought. It was a dirty fight because the odds were so stacked against the IRA. The Brits were marauding and storming homes, gerrymandering, interning, torturing. Someone had to standup for nationalists, the same as had to be done here 100 years ago. It was dirty, regrettable, street fighting, nasty war with horrific collateral damage. But at least the Brit soldiers are off the streets and Sinn Fein have achieved historic political gains.
And with the Brit soldiers gone we have no more torture, internment, collusion, wrongful imprisonment, mass shootings of Irish civilians in our country, The IRA forced you to peace, and you’re obviously bitter since. Well after 700 years of being a tyrant, defeat is a bitter pill.
you are deluded.
Cian, the Unionist and revisionist sewer of information yourself and your Blueshirt mates are bandying about these days is the only delusion.
You and Fine Gael sided with the Brits. You wanted the Union. Now that you don’t have it, you have no way of being Irish. no way of defining yourself with an history that isn’t British. You only define yourself by not being Sinn Fein.
The Irish people know they have a pround anti-imperial tradition. It was what led to our independence. Fine Gael have zero connection to that. No Irishness whatsoever, Strangers in our land.
Aye, Beret Boy comes across more like Frank Spencer than feared freedom fighter.
You just know he’d be hiding in the jacks if there was a decent scatter going on in the bar.
Good for the lolz though.
You do realize, hopefully, that Final Gael are in the govt in our republic, unlike your party in the north? Elected, not knee capped to power?
Go on, who pays your wages, the Queen or the republic? You, Goo, Fart and others can’t answer this simple question. Why?
Is it far away or a 1:32 scale model…
If there’s a market for this sort of thing, I must fetch me grandpa’s old blunderbuss out of the attic.
Anyone who has visited the various military shows will have observed that the Nordies arrive in their droves with war memorabilia and military collections. They collect a lot of Third Reich stuff, which is fascinating to look at – that is, from a historical point of view.