Explosive device made safe in Dublin

An Army bomb disposal team has made safe a viable Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Dublin this afternoon.

An Army bomb disposal team has made safe a viable Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Dublin this afternoon.

The device was found outside a house on Kilcronan Avenue in Clondalkin at about 2pm.

The team arrived on the scene and made safe the IED. No controlled explosion was carried out.

The device has been removed to a military installation for further examination, following which it will be handed over to the Gardai.

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The scene was declared safe at 3.15pm

Today's operation was the 236th call out of bomb disposal teams this year and the 55th viable IED made safe.

This is the highest annual number of call outs for the bomb disposal teams since 1979.