An Army bomb disposal team has made safe a viable explosive device that was left outside a house in west Dublin.
The device was found outside the property in the Newhall housing estate on the Blessington Road in Tallaght early this morning.
The Army team arrived on the scene at 3.45am and the all clear was give an hour later after the device was made safe.
A Defence Forces spokesman said this was the 194th call out for the bomb disposal teams and the 38th viable explosive device made safe so far this year.