Detectives are investigating if the discovery of a viable explosive device in a Louth pub is connected with another incident at the same bar two years ago.

Thousands of British motorists and passengers were again stranded for up to 12 hours while bomb disposal experts tackled a mysterious hazard on the carriageway.

Latest: An army bomb disposal have made safe an explosive device found underneath Thomond Bridge, in Limerick, earlier today.

A man from France has been detained by police in England after a suspected firearm was discovered at Gatwick Airport.

Gardaí are examining a possible drugs link after a pipe bomb was found outside a house in Cork yesterday —one of two pipe bomb incidents the Defence Forces dealt with in just 12-hours.

Gardai have described a pipe bomb left on a footpath outside a house in Limerick City as been a "very serious danger to the public" and to the occupants of the house.

Around 20 houses had to be evacuated tonight after the discovery of a bomb in Newcastle West, Co Limerick.

Bomb disposal experts have carried out a controlled explosion on a suspected mortar bomb discovered on a Norfolk beach.

A viable pipe bomb was this afternoon found and dismantled on Cork city's northside.

The Army bomb disposal unit is dealing with reports of a suspicious device in the Watercourse Road area on the northside of Cork city.

An explosive device has been discovered at a college campus in north Dublin.

An Army Bomb Disposal Team made safe a quantity of unstable Dinitrophenylhydrazine at Scoil Caitriona, Mobhi Road, Glasnevin, Dublin 11 this morning.

Five pipe bombs found in a field in Co Clare have been made safe by the army bomb disposal unit.

Army bomb experts have defused an improvised explosive outside a private home in Dublin last night.

THERE has been a sharp increase in completed bomb attacks this year, as gang turf wars and personal feuds reach new heights.

A British bomb disposal expert working on land mine clearance has died in an explosion, it was announced today.

ARMY bomb disposal experts have been called out to deal with a sharp rise in hoax emergencies this year, figures show.

About one third of all bomb disposal call-outs are to examine a hoax device, Defence Minister Willie O’Dea said tonight.

One of Ireland’s best known landmarks was shut down today while Army bomb experts exploded an old lighthouse detonator.

HUNDREDS of people were evacuated from Waterford courthouse and surrounding buildings yesterday after a “viable, explosive device” was found in a car outside the fire station, a mere 10 metres from the court building.

THE number of bomb alerts has jumped by nearly 50% this year, new figures show.

THERE has been a sharp rise in the number of hoax bomb incidents this year.

GARDA experts are examining suspect bombs following two separate incidents in Dublin over the weekend.

DUBLIN’S O’Connell Street was evacuated yesterday after the discovery of what was thought to be a pipe-bomb.

GARDAÍ are investigating whether a hoax pipe bomb planted outside a garda’s home yesterday was constructed by a bomb-maker suspected of being linked to other recent incidents.