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Free Party at Hellfire club raided by cops

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Monday July 22, 2002 10:14author by Declan Brennan - None

This is from an account posted on ie-dance. I thought some here might be interested to hear about it. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ie-dance/message/56925

> > Hi,
> >
> > The Hellfire Club Party Organised by Future FM was shut down by the
> > police at about 12:30am. Their was probably at most 50 - 60 people
> > their at the time.
> >
> > The Garda had been stopping people at the entrance to the car park
> > and taking drink and searching some people from approx 11.30pm. As i
> > say around 12:30am, a group of around 20 - 30 Garda came running up
> > to the top of the mountain. Some garda were reasonable enough in
> > their approach and just told everyone to go home but off course there
> > were also the assholes who enjoy hitting people. A lot of people ran
> > off and their was only about 20 people who stayed with the equipment.
> > The garda then searched everyone and let most head off home.
> >
> > Two buses were organised and one of which made it up to the car park,
> > I did'nt see this part but was told the bus ran into a garda
> > checkpoint and everyone was made get off the bus and searched.
> >
> > ronan

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