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16 years 9 months ago #56291 by stepryan
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ladies and gents,
just noticed that there is some twit shining to searchlights onto the clouds SE of where i live in finglas. i would say they are probably somewhere near phibsboro at a guess. they are the ones that rotate around. anybody else seen them?.
stephen.

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16 years 9 months ago #56311 by Paul FitzGerald
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Yeah Stephen, I ve noticed them for the past few nights also.

A friend of mine thinks they are out of a circus that has set up somewhere around the Phoenix Park. :roll:

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16 years 9 months ago #56312 by DaveGrennan
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Looks to me like they are coming from around o'connell st area.

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16 years 9 months ago #56315 by voyager
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Yeah Stephen, I ve noticed them for the past few nights also.

A friend of mine thinks they are out of a circus that has set up somewhere around the Phoenix Park. :roll:


Possibly the same circus that has been doing the rounds for a while. We had it in Maynooth not too long ago and it was right royal PITA. There should be laws against that kind of light polution. I mean it's literally pissing energy up into the sky!

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16 years 9 months ago #56318 by jhoare
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Perhaps you should report it to air traffic control as a potential hazard to navigation? If authorities get excited about green lasers blinding pilots they should also get upset about searchlights. If so, that would get it sorted pretty quick.

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16 years 9 months ago #56322 by albertw
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I'll go look around town tonight if I can. These skybeams should be banned - and are in many cities across Europe.

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