Gardai will this morning destroy hundreds of guns seized in the Republic over the past 15 years.
More than 800 firearms seized from criminal and paramilitary groups will be broken up at an industrial premises in Dublin.
The cache includes heavy sub-machine guns, hand guns, Kalashnikov AK-47 rifles, a number of rocket propelled grenade launchers and sawn-off shotguns.
The metal recovered from the destruction of the weapons will be melted down and sent to Ohio, in America, where it will form part of a peace fountain.
Garda Commissioner Tony Hickey will oversee the break-up of the weapons.
