Viable Explosive Device Found by Dublin's Merrion Square and Made Safe, a Day After World Leaders Dined Across the Square
Irish police found a viable explosive device at an office building on Merrion Square in central Dublin on Friday afternoon, November 13, and army bomb disposal experts made it safe. Just a day earlier, leaders of the European Political Community had dined at the National Gallery of Ireland on another side of the same square.
An Garda Síochána, the Irish police force, said in a statement that shortly after 2:20 p.m. officers responded to a report of a suspicious device at an office building in Merrion Square, Dublin 2. Based on the initial Garda assessment, a Defence Forces Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team was requested to attend the scene and made safe what the police described as "a crude but viable device." An investigation has commenced. The statement did not say when police believe the device was planted or give other details.
The discovery came on the second day of a summit in the Irish capital. European Political Community leaders met in Dublin on November 12, and Taoiseach Micheál Martin hosted a dinner at the National Gallery of Ireland attended by French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who was a guest at the event. On November 13, EU leaders continued with an informal meeting at a convention centre about 1.5 kilometres from where the device was found. A security cordon was put in place around the office building.
Source: An Garda Síochána
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