{"id":70735,"date":"2025-10-10T01:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/70735\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:50:09","slug":"update-suspicious-package-discovered-at-limerick-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/70735\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Suspicious \u2018package\u2019 discovered at Limerick school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GARDAI have confirmed a suspicious \u201cpackage\u201d was discovered at Castletroy College this Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A Defence Forces Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team, gardai, firefighters and paramedics with the National Ambulance Services have all responded to the secondary school.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/breaking-news\/1915290\/breaking-emergency-services-respond-to-major-incident-at-limerick-school.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BREAKING: Emergency services respond to major incident at Limerick school<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick Live<\/a> understands the \u201cpackage\u201d is being treated as containing \u201cpotentially hazardous material\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said garda\u00ed and emergency services are currently in attendance at an educational establishment in Newtown, Limerick following \u201cthe discovery of a package on Thursday, October 9 2025\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no further information available at this time,\u201d said the garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>There have been no reports of any injuries to students at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick City and County Council, Castletroy College and the Defence Forces have also been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARDAI have confirmed a suspicious \u201cpackage\u201d was discovered at Castletroy College this Thursday. A Defence Forces Explosive Ordnance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,7518,47061,42,44,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-70735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-castletroy","10":"tag-castletroy-college","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-limerick-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70735","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=70735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}