Army Bomb Disposal team make safe a device discovered in Inistioge

The Army Bomb Disposal team were called to Inistioge in Co Kilkenny yesterday afternoon to tend to a suspect device.

The 19th Century Mills Type Grenade was found by a member of the public in the rural Tullogher area.

The team arrived at 3:45pm and the grenade was made safe by a controlled explosion.

It was the second call-out for the team in the South East yesterday, they were also called to a rural location outside Dunhill in Co. Waterford.

There they found commercial dynamite, which was also made safe by a controlled explosion.