Houses evacuated after suspected improvised device thrown at house in Drogheda

The army bomb disposal team has been called in by gardaí in Drogheda after a suspected improvised device was thrown at a house.

Update 2.20pm: People have been evacuated from a number of houses in Drogheda, county Louth after a suspected improvised device was thrown at a house in a large housing estate.

It is understood the device was thrown at the front door of the house in the Rathmullen Estate around 11.30 this morning but it did not go off.