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Wicklow
Bomb squad deals with viable device in Co Wicklow
The Army Bomb Disposal Unit is called to deal with a viable device in Newtownmountkennedy, while a hoax device is removed in Dublin.
THE ARMY BOMB Disposal Team was called to deal with a viable explosive device in a Co Wicklow town earlier today.
The team was deployed to Sycamore Drive in Newtownmountkennedy in response to a request by the Gardaí, and arrived on scene at 3.20pm.
The device, which was identified as viable, was made safe and removed to a military installation for further examination.
The scene was declared safe at 4:15pm, and the device was later handed back to Gardaí for their investigations.
In a separate incident, an Army Bomb Team carried out a controlled explosion on a suspect device in a hedgerow off St Laurence’s Road, Ballyfermot this evening.
The device, which was located under the N4, was subsequently declared to be a hoax.
The incidents mark the 187th and 188th times that the Army Bomb Disposal Units have been dispatched so far in 2011.
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