Waterford City - Dangerous Stuff

Tonight, Waterford City erupted! I had always assumed it was a safe place to work and live but the recent traveller feuds really have put Waterford City on the map, and for all the wrong reasons! At around 10pm, I finished work. I had heard some talk from a few people speaking of travellers in John St, which is about a 5 minute walk away from where I work. Travellers by themselves aren’t really something to be worried about, but when they’re involved in a feud which has already seen people wind up dead, it kind of makes you want to duck for cover!

I had heard of all this trouble, so I decided to leave via the front entrance of where I work only to find myself immediately calling for managers left right and centre as several knackers were trying to get in! Our general manager held them off until the other (male) managers arrived on the scene! She really deserves a lot of credit for keeping the place out of trouble for the night which is more that can be said for other areas of the town!

Shots were fired was what I was being told in the Taxi journey home. Shortly afterwards, the John St area of the city was blocked off to everyone, which obviously affected business while at the same time broadcasting that what had happened was very, very serious! I had a friend working in the very middle of it all who had quite the story to tell that involved a loud crashing sound and then he saw a Garda van full of bullet holes in the middle of the city!

Things seemed to quieten down after that, but of course they would with every single emergency unit in the South East being on high alert. There have been reports of people hanging themselves and cars being burnt in some of the estates in the city but I’ve heard nothing more than that! If all the stories turn out to be true then I have no doubt that Waterford will wake up a different City to the one it was earlier…