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Fourth suspect device found in Dublin's Coombe area

Friday, 24 October 2008

Army bomb disposal experts are attending the scene of a fourth bomb alert in Dublin this afternoon.

The fourth device was found by council workers on Oliver Bond Street in the Coombe area of the city.

The army has already dealt with three other devices found in the Lucan, Ballyfermot and Coolock areas.

A number of homes were evacuated while the devices were examined.

One of them was an old grenade and others are believed to have been pipe bombs.

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