{"id":251590,"date":"2026-01-18T19:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251590\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:58:08","slug":"north-dublin-road-artery-reopened-after-removal-of-suspicious-device-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251590\/","title":{"rendered":"North Dublin road artery reopened after removal of suspicious device \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A major road artery into Dublin\u2019s city centre was closed for a time on Sunday when members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/defence-forces\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/defence-forces\/\">Defence Forces<\/a> bomb disposal team were called to investigate a suspicious device. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident occurred around the North Strand Road area where a portion of the road was cordoned off between the Five Lamps and Fairview. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> said they were alerted after the suspect device was discovered in the Royal Canal at Newcomen Bridge at about 12.30pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cA cordon was established and the Defence Forces Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team attended the scene,\u201d the Garda press office said afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe EOD team have now removed the suspect device. The area was declared safe and the cordon has since been lifted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Local diversions that had been put in place were also removed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">No further details of the device were given. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major road artery into Dublin\u2019s city centre was closed for a time on Sunday when members of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,28204,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-251590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-dublin-3","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}