{"id":429303,"date":"2026-05-02T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429303\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:15:09","slug":"army-bomb-squad-called-in-after-suspicious-device-found-in-donegal-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429303\/","title":{"rendered":"Army bomb squad called in after suspicious device found in Donegal \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Army\u2019s bomb disposal team was called in after a suspicious device was found on the outskirts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/letterkenny\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/letterkenny\">Letterkenny<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donegal\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donegal\/\">Co Donegal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A cordon was established and 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> Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) was summoned after the device was located in the area of Edenacarnan South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The townland is between Letterkenny and Kilmacrennan and close to Illistrin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Military vehicles made their way to the area in mid-afternoon on Saturday after being drafted in by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed also attended the scene and manned the cordon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood a controlled explosion was carried out on the device.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It has not been clarified whether the suspicious device \u2013 which is understood to have appeared as if it were discarded \u2013 was viable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Garda spokesperson said the operation \u201chas been successfully completed\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Army\u2019s bomb disposal team was called in after a suspicious device was found on the outskirts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,13308,1485,61,60,93447,1486,43],"class_list":["post-429303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-defence-forces","tag-donegal","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-army","tag-letterkenny","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429303","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=429303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}