Over 700 children and staff were evacuated from a school in Ennis this morning following a feared gas leak in the area.
The alarm was raised shortly before 9am as students were lining up to enter their classes at Ennis CBS primary school on New Road in the town.
The principal was alerted to the incident at around 8.55am by parents dropping their children to school and by Gardaí.
Two units of the fire brigade from nearby Ennis station responded to the scene along with Gardaí.
On arrival, emergency services found that an evacuation of the school had been fully completed.
Gardaí closed New Road to traffic while fire crews carried out an investigation of the area. Using gas detectors, firefighters took readings but found no evidence of gas.
The evacuation was precautionary, and usual business was resumed after around half an hour.
A spokeswoman for Gas Networks Ireland confirmed that there were no readings of natural gas or damage to their pipelines in the area.
