The army bomb disposal team was called in to the Knowth Court area of Ballymun.

An expert group has made a submission to the government saying it must bolster the Naval Service to protect the country's maritime security.

The exodus from the Defence Forces continues unabated with 70 personnel bailing out of the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps last month - 16 of whom were recruits in training.

We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by by looking back at some Irish Examiner front pages and highlighting other events which went down in history across the world.

A pay review is to be undertaken in the next three months aimed at addressing the exodus of highly trained engineers and technicians in the Defence Forces, especially in the Naval Service.

The two representative associations for the Defence Forces are set to have their national executive meeting within days to consider the fall-out from the Public Service Pay Commission (PSPC) report.

A €10 million package to increase allowances for members of the Defence Forces does not go far enough to stem the exodus of soldiers leaving the army, according to Fianna Fáil.

Members of the country's Reserve Defence Forces (RDF) are being paid on average 18% less than the rates being given to their counterparts in the regular forces.

The Department of Health on Baggot Street has re-opened, following the discovery of a suspicious package this morning.

Gardaí targeting dissident republicans have uncovered a significant cache of explosives and arms along the border, in the second linked operation since the start of February.

Hezbollah has strongly rejected the UK government's move to ban it as a terrorist organisation, calling it an "insult" to the Lebanese people and evidence of subservience to the United States.

Acknowledging that many of its members fought in the British army does not diminish the GAA’s contribution to Irish society or the fact that many others of its members fought in 1916 and in the War of Independence, writes Paul Rouse

Ken Foxe’s report that the State is insisting that the Government of Ireland logo be used in promotional material for Óglaigh na hÉireann is very worrying ‘Army told to include State logo on promo material’ (Irish Examiner, November 1).

The Department of Defence is “out of touch with the retention crisis” in the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps, it has been claimed, as a leaked military report shows it is failing to achieve the number, or calibre, of new recruits needed to fill gaps.

Army-owned land at Cathal Brugha Barracks in south Dublin is being considered for social and affordable housing.

The escalating manpower crisis in the naval service has led to reservists being called up to ensure ship crew numbers do not fall below required safety limits.

It cost the taxpayer €15m in one year to replace Defence Forces personnel who left because they weren’t paid properly.

The Army bomb disposal squad was called to a charity shop in Dublin today after a device was found inside a bag of donated clothing.

The Army bomb disposal squad was called to a charity shop in Dublin today after a device was found inside a bag of donated clothing.

People leaving Shannon Airport and others at check-in desks were attacked by a group of armed men and women who forced them back into the terminal and held them hostage.

A man widely named as the Army's notorious IRA agent Stakeknife has been released on bail.

The army bomb squad has carried out a controlled explosion on a ‘suspicious’ object that was found washed up on a beach in Co Clare this afternoon.

NEXT weekend three Irish teams play three English teams in the European Champions’ Cup. Ulster travel to London to play Harlequins at the Twickenham Stoop, Leinster go to Sandy Park to play the Exeter Chiefs and Munster will again welcome Leicester Tigers at Thomond Park.

More than a dozen homes had to be evacuated after two pipe bombs were discovered on a housing estate in Drogheda.

A Catholic priest shot and killed Patrick Pearse and two other Irish republicans in west Cork during the Civil War, leading anti-Treaty IRA members later claimed, writes Niall Murray.

The Army bomb squad has made safe a pipe bomb found in Rathkeale, Co Limerick.

A controlled explosion of school lab supplies has taken place in Dublin's St Stephen's Green this morning.

The Naval Service could have a new multi-role vessel (MRV) built and operational wthin the next three years.

The Army bomb squad has made safe a hand grenade found in Ballsbridge in Dublin.

Here's your morning news bulletin.

A damning report on the Defence Forces found poor pay, lack of expertise, exhaustion, and Hotel Rwanda-style barracks have led to an exodus, leaving the Army, Naval Service, and Air Corps almost dysfunctional.

Latest: A suspected pipe bomb found in Cabra, Dublin this morning has been removed for examination.

Her disclosure of classified documents in 2010 ushered in the age of leaks. Now, freed from prison, she talks to Matthew Shaer about why she did it - and the isolation that followed.

President Barack Obama granted Ms Manning clemency in his final days in office in January.

Fire fighters will continue to battle a major fire in one of the country's biggest forests today.

Analysis of samples taken from a deadly sarin gas attack in Syria earlier this month "bears the signature" of President Bashar Assad's government and shows it was responsible for the deadly assault, France's foreign minister has said.

Families of soldiers killed in the IRA bombing in London's Hyde Park said they have been made victims "three times over" in the years since the atrocity.

One person has died and three were injured in an explosion at a US Army ammunition plant in Independence, Missouri, officials said.

A device discovered in County Offaly yesterday has been declared a viable bomb.

Update 11pm: An Army Bomb Disposal Team has made safe three suspect devices found in Naas, Co. Kildare.