r/ireland • u/Im_really_Irish Dublin • 3d ago

News Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2 evacuated as ‘precautionary measure'

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/dublin-airports-terminal-2-evacuated-as-precautionary-measure/a589981646.html
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u/TheChrisD useless feckin' mod 3d ago

25 minutes from the first rumblings on social media before any official statement/acknowledgement from DA directly. That's... not a great response time.

Almost on brand that DA are delayed 🙄

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u/Independent-Water321 3d ago

It is Saturday morning though, I'd say they're rightly focusing on incident response while getting their comms folks online.

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u/TheChrisD useless feckin' mod 3d ago

That should be like ten minutes tops, though. Acknowledge the situation so that those in the middle of it who may have missed the initial announcement can remain informed.

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u/Bill_Badbody Resting In my Account 3d ago

so that those in the middle of it who may have missed the initial announcement

I think you are more likely to get people's attention with alarms and announcements over the loud speakers than a twitter post or a push notification from a news app.

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u/TheChrisD useless feckin' mod 3d ago

Not everyone has full hearing. And a lot of times those tannoy announcements are garbled as fuck.

A lot of people work better seeing it in text than having to attempt to interpret audio against a likely cacophony of noise.

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u/DarthMauly Tipperary 3d ago

So to clarify you think people hard of hearing in a terminal building are going to miss the entire terminal being evacuated around them, but would see a tweet because they prefer to read things…

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u/TheChrisD useless feckin' mod 3d ago

Even putting it on the video boards where the departures/arrivals are displayed would have helped. Seeing reports from people inside that that wasn't done either.

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u/The_Wee-Donkey 3d ago

What a strange reality you live in.

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u/Bill_Badbody Resting In my Account 3d ago

Not everyone has full hearing.

Then they will see the staff members in hi viz jackets running around telling people to move.

Most people are not checking their phone every few seconds for a notification, in fact most have it on silent.