{"id":25481,"date":"2025-09-16T18:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25481\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:49:07","slug":"security-operation-at-dublins-merrion-square-due-to-suspicious-package-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25481\/","title":{"rendered":"Security operation at Dublin\u2019s Merrion Square due to suspicious package \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">A security operation involving garda\u00ed and the Army bomb squad was under way at Merrion Square in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\">Dublin<\/a> city centre on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> said they were alerted to a suspicious package at a premises on Merrion Square on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cA cordon has been put in place around the area and the services of the army Explosives Ordnance Disposal team requested,\u201d garda\u00ed said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Traffic in the area, which is close to Leinster House, was disrupted as a result of the security operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A security operation involving garda\u00ed and the Army bomb squad was under way at Merrion Square in Dublin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-25481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25481","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=25481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}