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Updated at 12.07pm
AN ARMY BOMB disposal team has been called to an area in Tallaght for the second time in less than 12 hours to deal with a possible explosive device.
The team is currently at the scene in the Raheen/Whitebrook area of Tallaght.
Earlier, a number of homes in Tallaght were evacuated in the early hours of this morning after a viable explosive device was discovered in a housing estate.
An Army bomb disposal team was called to the scene in Cushlawn Park just after 2.30am when the device was found outside a private home.
The area around the house was cordoned off by Gardaí and local residents were brought to a safe location.
The device was made safe at the scene and brought to a secure military location for further examination where it was declared to be a viable Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
The remains of the device have been handed over to the Gardaí who are carrying out an investigation into what happened.
This was the 64th viable IED made safe by Army bomb disposal teams so far this year.
Cushlawn Park in Tallaght. (Image: Google Maps)
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RIP
That’s such sad news. :-(
Nobody knows other peoples people’s problems. Could be his health or family.
Thats awful, just goes to show money don’t make you happy. RIP.
Where does it say he had any?
RIP.
I was at the scene of a suicide a number of years ago.
Its not something friends or a family should ever experience, not to mention the victim.
R.i.p. tony……loved true romance and man on fire
Man on Fire is a fantastic movie. RIP
I don’t think I will ever understand how a person can be so far gone that they will kill themselves ,people go on about how selfish an act it is especially if there are loved ones left and so on, but just think about it for a minute , just try to put yourself in the shoes of that person who is about to kill themselves , imagine how horribly lonely and desperate they are feeling, they don’t think logically , they are not selfish at that moment they are just very unwell and need help desperately. Really really sad for anyone facing this in their lives RIP.
@John….could not agree with you more….no one can understand the pain of someone who feels driven to take his/her own life….
apparantly he had inoperable cancer
Absolutely terrible. There’s such a stigma attached to mental health the world over, horrible.
But how does this situation relate to stigma?
We don’t know the reason for this death.
Rip Tony. Man on fire was my favourite Tony Scott films followed closely by True Romance.
Ironic as it was reported recently that he was thinking of doing a remake of ‘A Bridge Too Far’.
Good man Conor. I take it your one of our many citizens that still manages to trivialize suicide. This poor mans problems go a lot further than his job me thinks. Our thoughts are with him & his family.
Sad news. It’s awful that he thought the only way to find peace was to do this. My condolences to his family and friends.
just looking at my dvd collection and i have nearly all his movies. Such sad news
It really is sad news that you have nearly all his movies! Thanks for sharing
He’d lost that loving feeling
HAAAAAAA HAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAA! Chortle…. wheeze! Oh, oh, give me a second to catch my breath from laughing at that one!
Cos a man with a wife and 2 kids killing himself is such a fu#king hillarious wheeze.
Bandaraboy – you’re an arsehole!
Heard he did it because he was just diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour & he couldn’t live with the news..so sad :( RIP
R.I.P. Tony.
Too many suicides in our country.
Government does very little to publicly acknowledge the issue, let alone do anything about it.
so,so sad and left a very young family behind …
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