Public warned to be careful after spate of bomb alerts

Members of the public are being warned not to handle suspicious devices after two separate alerts in Dublin and Louth yesterday.

The first happened at a house in Sundale Avenue in Tallaght.

When gardaí arrived on the scene, a man told them he had lifted the device and examined it before raising the alarm.

Army personnel later removed it from the scene and made it safe at a military barracks.

A separate alert saw about 25 people evacuated from houses along Avenue Road in Dundalk yesterday when a pipe bomb was found in a local garden.

During the operation, one man became unwell and later died, following a suspected heart attack.