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A VIABLE EXPLOSIVE device has been made safe in Darndale in Dublin by an army bomb disposal team.
The device was found on some waste ground near a residential area in the Belcamp Lane area and the team arrived on the scene at around 6.05pm.
It was made safe without the need for a controlled explosion and was removed to a safe military location for further examination, where it was confirmed to be viable.
This is the 42nd viable device made safe by an Army Bomd Disposal Team so far this year.
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I wanna know what’s goin through the minds of these brutal gang members as they lay down these bombs! Good work by the bomb disposal team yet again, can’t praise these lads enough!
I have been wondering over the last year or so… In this day and age- what exactly is an explosive device and Who plants these devices?
Em, I know, a device that explodes??
Traveller & Gangland fueds mostly. Generally they are pipe bombs. Very easily made unfortunately. At least that’s what I heard from a Garda.
Feuds
Again? It’s like living in Belfast during the 1970s
No it’s not Jonathon. It’s nothing like it.
What is it with all these bombs, that is all you here every week.
Darndale still as mad as ever
Can we get a pin map from the graphics department showing the location of viable devices discovered in the last few years? I’m going to be settling back in Dublin in a few months and could use some guidance.
If darndale was on list of possibles, it’s not a pin map you need…..
Lobotomy comes to mind.
Thank God I dont live in Dublin.
We already thanked him…
Yeah it’s just as well the job of village idiot was already filled.
It was a tounge n cheek comment. Lighten up a bit!!!!
Typo – “Army Bomd Disposal Team” should be “Bomb”.
Should be bomb? Sure we all thought it was ‘bond’!
For a moment I thought it was in Priory Hall and the City Manager had asked Mc Feely to make the problem go away. After all it was the city manager who bought 26 of these monstrosities of the drawing board even though Mc Feely was banned from another Dublin City Council site. Both people are still walking around free as birds.
@meldoylesun
So Mel would you rather have SNAs trying to defuse bombs and protecting your money on it’s way to the bank or guarding the mint or the inmates in Portlaoise? Retirees from the DF have earned every cent of their Grats.
@ mickyboy Byrne .
toy soldier I presume…don’t mean to offend especially the young child injured by pipe bomb.
Define toy soldier tommo
Most of the devices discovered are not actually explosive devices as they don’t have any explosive within. A Pringles packet with wires and a battery is classed as viable but it doesn’t have explosives but if it did it could explode. So it’s reported as viable but realistically about 80-90% of these devices have no chance of exploding. The guards are not experts so they call EOD out and they make the call.
Media dramatics…viable device can be anything from a firework cracker to an alarm clock and a battery……
So there you have it folks EOD Expert Thomas Hannigan is the man to call in future when you have a suspect device to defuse.
Like the one that blew the fingers off the five year old last week, and possibly would have killed him had he not being wearing his cycling helmet? That kind of media dramatics? It must take an A-Bomb to impress you.
This is happening far too frequently. We have to shout “enough!” and reclaim our country from the criminal shitheads.
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