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Homes evacuated after army bomb disposal team called to device in Waterford

The artillery shell has been removed to a safe military location for further examination.

THE ARMY BOMB disposal team were called upon after a suspicious device was discovered in Waterford this afternoon.

An historic artillery shell was found in a residential area of Dunmore East by a member of the public.

Some local residents were evacuated from their homes as a safety precaution, and a cordon was put in place.

The team arrived on scene at 4.50 and safely isolated the shell and removed it to a safe military location for further examination. The scene was declared safe at 5 pm.

The Defence Forces are appealing to members of the public who come across historic explosives or weapons  to maintain a safe distance and inform the gardaí, who in turn will request Defence Forces assistance.

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    Mute P.J. Nolan
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    Jun 3rd 2017, 8:25 PM

    Not enough socialism, apparently.

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    Mute alphanautica
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    Jun 3rd 2017, 8:34 PM

    @P.J. Nolan: essential ingredients of successful durable socialism is a brutally heavy handed military government, fake elections and an elite oligarchy. It never works without those pillars.

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    Mute Brian O'Faolain
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    Jun 3rd 2017, 11:14 PM

    @alphanautica: you mean like norway, sweden or finland? Awful kips huh? Thank god we live here.

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    Mute Blue Moon rising
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    Jun 4th 2017, 2:51 AM

    @Fake Avast: Yeah it was the USA that made Venezuela into an ungovernable socialist hellhole and not the policies of Hugo Chavez as he rots in the ground

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    Mute alphanautica
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    Jun 3rd 2017, 8:30 PM

    Venezuela is AAA-PBP-SF’s role model economy.

    This article is clearly as cheap shot at undermining their economic expertise.

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    Mute Honeybadger197
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    Jun 3rd 2017, 8:38 PM

    @alphanautica: #pearseknowsbest

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    Mute alphanautica
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    Jun 3rd 2017, 8:41 PM

    @Honeybadger197: Corbyn should head over on a mission. Give him a good PA system on the main square, they’d all settle down quite quickly once the hear what he has to say.

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    Mute Harry Whitehead
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    Jun 3rd 2017, 9:38 PM

    @alphanautica: There is virtually no policy in Jeremy Corbyn’s manifesto that isn’t already followed in the Nordic states. Try playing another record, the Venezuela analogies are looking every bit as threadbare as Lynton Crosby’s IRA smear campaign.

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    Mute alphanautica
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    Jun 3rd 2017, 9:46 PM

    @Harry Whitehead: you might want to get on to Corbyn so: ‘Chavez showed us that there is a different and a better way of doing things’ are his own words coming out of his own megaphone.

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    Mute Stephen Moore
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    Jun 3rd 2017, 8:47 PM

    All those Corbyn cultists from earlier on should take note​ that this is his vision of a country that “got socialism right”.

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    Jun 3rd 2017, 10:26 PM

    How did we accept austerity so easily? Was it because it mainly dehumanised the poorest & sickest citizens especially Labour and FGs extremely regressive 5 budgets from hell.
    Labour you are Still 4-6% in the polls cos u lied to the most vulnerable and caused homelessness ti become the norm for the badly off and people are years now waiting in agony on hospital waiting lists.

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    Mute Deborah Behan
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    Jun 3rd 2017, 9:17 PM

    No matter what happened in Venezuela it wasn’t these young people’s fault more the fault of older people. If it was my child I’d want them where they were safe which is here.

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    Jun 3rd 2017, 9:47 PM

    The Journal goes straight for the click-bait kill as usual. A man wasn’t set alight, he was beating an abandoned state-owned motorbike with a stick, the petrol tank exploded and his clothes caught fire. It was a horrific event, but please don’t resort to lazy journalism for the sake of dramatic headlines

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    Jun 3rd 2017, 11:22 PM

    …oh, the unending joys of socialism!

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    Mute alphanautica
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    Jun 3rd 2017, 9:51 PM

    Hopefully Venezuela has an Enda Kenny rising up through the political ranks who can rescue their country from the brink.
    As happened in Ireland, we barely escaped the deathly clutches of the hard left, those naive self-convinced loons beset on suffocating economic improvement through hard work and instead wanting to suck an economy dry with their inert socialist begging bowl.
    Perhaps there will be Enda Kenny tshirts circulating soon in Venezuela, modelled on Che Guevara, another proud Irishman of principle.

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    Jun 5th 2017, 10:57 PM

    He’s not asking anyone to pay his tuition, the chap was robbed by his government like all the other students who have been robbed of life savings who came here to study. He is highlighting a situation that a lot of Venezuela’s who are here are in. Venezuela is in a dire place and the people are being killed in the streets everyday. They are being starved and robbed. How you can make light of that is beyond me.

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