A father missed his daughter’s wedding by triggering a security alert at Dublin Airport when he made a “horrendous” joke about having a bomb in his luggage, a court has heard.<\/p>\n
Iraqi national Jamal Hameed (62), of Park Gardens, Hansfield, Wood, pleaded guilty to causing a false alarm at Terminal 1 on December 22nd, 2025.<\/p>\n
Dublin District Court heard that the bomb scare occurred when he and his party were travelling abroad for his daughter’s wedding.<\/p>\n
Judge Karen Dowling was told that when officials asked him if he was carrying any prohibited items, “he told them he had a bomb in his luggage”.<\/p>\n
Pleading for leniency, defence solicitor Paul Byrne said: “It was a joke, in horrendous bad taste”.<\/p>\n
He submitted that his client had no prior criminal convictions and that there was no real threat.<\/p>\n
The solicitor stressed that his client was a long-term resident in Ireland with children in university.<\/p>\n
The court heard that, as a consequence of Hameed’s remark, he and some family members, who were due to travel with him, had their flights cancelled and that “he missed his daughter’s wedding”.<\/p>\n
Byrne informed the judge that his client did not work due to health reasons.<\/p>\n
Judge Dowling told him that passing the remark was not right, especially as he was about to catch a flight.<\/p>\n
She noted from the defence that the accused, who has lived in Ireland for five years, was willing to engage with the Probation Service.<\/p>\n
Byrne said his client would do anything that was asked of him.<\/p>\n
Hameed did not address the court and listened to the proceedings with the aid of a translator.<\/p>\n
Judge Dowling adjourned sentencing until a date in July to allow a probation report to be furnished and to include an assessment of his suitability for community service.<\/p>\n
Hameed was remanded on continuing bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father missed his daughter’s wedding by triggering a security alert at Dublin Airport when he made a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-413766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}