{"id":604614,"date":"2026-08-25T23:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/604614\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T23:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:46:21","slug":"defence-forces-bomb-disposal-experts-remove-suspicious-device-in-dublin-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/604614\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Forces bomb disposal experts remove &#8216;suspicious device&#8217; in Dublin 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE DEFENCE FORCES and An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na attended an incident involving a \u201csuspicious device\u201d near Kilmainham, Dublin 8 this afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed confirmed they attended the scene following a report of a suspicious device in the St James, Dublin 8 area at around 3pm.<\/p>\n<p>The area was cordoned off and the Defence Forces Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Forces confirmed that bomb disposal experts from the EOD team responded to a request for assistance from An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said that following an assessment by the EOD team, a device was removed from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The scene was handed over to the garda\u00ed and the operation has now concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The cordon has now been lifted.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at the same time as a concert in the nearby Irish Museum of Modern Art.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that access to events in the area has not been impacted by the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE DEFENCE FORCES and An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na attended an incident involving a \u201csuspicious device\u201d near Kilmainham, Dublin 8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,13308,615,61,60,144067,43,75505],"class_list":["post-604614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-defence-forces","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilmainham","tag-news","tag-suspicious-device"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604614","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=604614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}