A man walked into a garda station with a pipe bomb today after it had been pushed through his letterbox.
Army bomb experts defused the home-made explosive at Finglas station.
The potentially lethal pipe-bomb, which was primed and ready to go off, was pushed through the door of a house in Rathvilly Park, Finglas, north Dublin.
A man who discovered the device in the house brought it into Finglas Garda station at around 1.20pm.
Officers called in the Army's Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit who made the improvised bomb safe without the need for a controlled explosion.
A Defence Forces spokesman said the device contained explosive content, understood to be a mix of firework and shotgun cartridge propellant.
It was potentially lethal and could have gone off, he added.
PA
