A live grenade that lay in a field for almost 100 years was destroyed by Army bomb disposal experts at the weekend.
The first World War grenade was discovered on a farm in Broadford, Co Limerick, by a treasure hunter armed with a metal detector.
It is thought that it was there since the War of Independence.
Farmer Owen O’Sullivan said he was stunned to learn that the weapon was still capable of exploding. “The Army bomb disposal team arrived and after checking it out they said it was still live,” he explained. “A controlled explosion was carried out and it did go off with a bang. They told me that it was a grenade that would have been used in the first World War, so I imagine it was from the War of Independence.”