{"id":429215,"date":"2026-05-02T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429215\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T20:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:02:08","slug":"army-bomb-squad-called-as-suspicious-device-found-in-donegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429215\/","title":{"rendered":"Army bomb squad called as suspicious device found in Donegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The army bomb disposal team was called in after a suspicious device was found on the outskirts of Letterkenny on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A cordon was established, and the Defence Forces&#8217; Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) was summoned after the device was located in the area of Edenacarnan South.<\/p>\n<p>The townland is between Letterkenny and Kilmacrennan and close to Illistrin.<\/p>\n<p>Military vehicles, including the EOD, made their way to the area in mid-afternoon after being drafted in by An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed also attended the scene and manned the cordon. It is understood that a controlled explosion was carried out on the device.<\/p>\n<p>It has not been clarified whether or not the suspicious device, which is understood to have appeared as if it were discarded, was viable.<\/p>\n<p>A Garda spokesperson said that the operation \u201chas been successfully completed\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The army bomb disposal team was called in after a suspicious device was found on the outskirts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-429215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429215","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=429215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}