Bomb disposal team inspect Lahinch cylinder

ALMOST a year to the day after a controlled explosion had to be carried out on a gas canister that washed up on one of the county’s most popular beaches, members of the army bomb disposal team were called back to Lahinch on Friday to examine a similar object.
A member of the public noticed a long metal cylinder in the water at low tide at Lahinch beach around 2pm on Thursday last and reported it to gardaí in Ennistymon.
Gardaí contacted the Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Unit but the bomb disposal experts were unable to examine the object until low tide on Friday.
The area was sealed off while the bomb disposal specialists inspected the object but was quickly reopened when the item was deemed to be an industrial gas canister. The item was removed from the beach by members of the Doolin unit of the Irish Coast Guard.
Last year, on January 7, the army bomb disposal unit carried out a controlled explosion on a similar canister at a different part of the beach, amid fears it may have been leaking.