An Army bomb squad has carried out a controlled explosion on a vintage grenade that was handed into Ennis Garda station this morning.
The man dropped the live grenade into the front office of the station after he found it while working at a building site near Ennis.
The grenade, believed to date back to the War of Independence, was taken to a safe area at the rear of the station while the bomb squad was alerted.
An Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team from Cork arrived at the scene at 1.50pm and identified the grenade as a viable War of Independence era grenade.
A Defence Forces spokesman confirmed that the grenade was removed to a nearby quarry where it was disposed of by controlled explosion.
The spokesman also advised that members of the public come across any item that they suspect could contain exposive material they should not attempt to move it.
