Blast from the past: Cork gardeners unearth wartime bomb shelter outside city home

Second World War-era shelter discovered during landscape works in back garden of Douglas house

Jean Walsh and her grandson Shay Walsh Murphy at the entrance to the bomb shelter with landscapers Eoin O'Sullivan and Aidan Carroll. Pictures: Dan Linehan

It is the back garden find that has shellshocked everyone.

Landscape gardeners Aidan Carroll and Eoin O’Sullivan have unearthed what they believe is a Second World War-era bomb shelter while working in the back garden of Jean Walsh's suburban Cork City home.