VIABLE DEVICE MADE SAFE IN CLONBOO

Date Published: 22-Dec-2011

A viable device found in the Clonboo area today has now been made safe by bomb disposal experts.

The suspicious device was found by the owner of a house located off the main road just past Cunniffes Pub in the village this morning.

Residents from five houses in the neighbourhood were evacuated and the area was sealed off after Gardai were alerted to the device just after 10 this morning.

The Bomb Disposal Unit were then drafted in from Athlone and have now left the scene, having made the device safe.

The bomb is now being taken to Garda headquarters in the Phoenix Park where it will be examined by a team of forensic specialists.