Lets just hope nothing happens.

Bit naive there Karl. Remember the bombings in Madrid? Spain didn’t invade anywhere, but fundamentalists didn’t like them being in Iraq so blew innocent commuters to pieces. If countries with the means and resources sit back and don’t get involved on wider world events then the extremists will win. Spain is very must in second tier in world policing affairs, but this proves that any country is at risk, not just the UK and the USA.

@Rebecca Spain didn’t invade but they occupied? Same thing. And are you for real? The terrorists exist precisely because countries with the means interfere with their countries. Not the other way round.

@Daniel R, yep, just checked and am for real. There are very few countries who stay out of everything that goes on in the world and if they do in my opinion it’s only due to lack of resources or funds. Ireland are very much involved in keeping factions apart as active UN peacekeepers, but in the future if one of these parties decides to make their grievance more personal to the Irish population then, the emergency services would need to be ready. This is the modern world and as unpleasant as it is, I guarantee there are plans to manage an incident should it happen in Ireland….well at least I hope there are.

Not really! People would be giving out if they weren’t prepared…

Every emergency service in the world holds exercises like this to prepare for such attacks. It is to make sure that the numerous agencies involved (police, ambulance, fire, military) can react in a coordinated manner.

Nothing odd about it at all Adam…these exercises take place all the time…it’s only odd when these exercises coincide with an actual “terrorist” attack. Kinda like what happened on 9/11 & the 7/7 tube bombings.