Connolly Station Closed 10am 11 May - Security Alert

LXFlyer

From Irish Rail twitter page:

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Trains to Sligo will depart from Pearse, to Belfast from Tara St (change at Howth Jn), to Rosslare from Pearse. No trains serve Connolly

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DART + Commuter will not stop at Connolly but are operating. Pls use Tara St/Pearse for city centre. Connolly Station closed: security alert

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0800 Belfast to Connolly: customers will transfer to DART at Howth Jn, and will alight at Tara St. 0700 Sligo to Connolly will run to Pearse

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Security Alert at Connolly Station. All services will bypass Connolly until further notice. The station has been evacuated

January

Dublin Bus diversions:

http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/News-Centre/Travel-News/Central-Control-1-/

Diversions
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Dublin Bus wishes to advise customers that due to an incident in Dublin City the following routes have been diverted:

27, 27b, 29a, 31, 31a/b, 42/a/b, 20b, 128, 53, 130, 32/a/b inbound will operate via Buckingham st. to Sean McDermot st. and onto Gardiner st. to Marlborough St.

Outbound the above routes will use Gardiner st. picking up passengers at the first stop and continuing on via Portland Row to the next stop at the health centre in the North Strand.

Route 151 southbound will not serve Sheriff st.or Amiens st. and will operate via North Quays

Dublin Bus apologises for any inconvenience caused.

Losty Dublin

The station is now reopened.

Cookie_Monster

what was it?

thomasj

They found a suspicious device at connolly station.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0511/connolly.html

godtabh

RTE are reporting a hoax

LXFlyer

From RTE:

Connolly Station has reopened following a security alert in Dublin city centre.


In a statement on Twitter, Iarnród Éireann said the station had reopened with full services resuming subject to delays.


The army bomb disposal team was called out to deal with a suspicious device found on Amiens St, which has now been made safe.

The Defence Forces said the device has been classified as a non-viable Improvised Explosive Device.

It is the fourth IED dealt with by its bomb disposal teams in the last 24 hours, Defence Forces said.

Our man in Havana

Surely allowing trains to run through was grossly irresponsible considering the nature of the device?

LXFlyer

Seemingly the "device" was on Sherriff Street under the bridge under the main station rather than the DART line.

Through services were however suspended subsequently.

patrickmooney

The belfast bound enterprise parked itself at Howth Junction Donaghmede during this. I believe buses brought passengers from the city to connect with the waiting train.