Bomb threats forced Irish media staff to leave offices in Dublin, interrupting RTÉ news output. Newstalk returned to its building after its threat was deemed a hoax, while police searched the public broadcaster’s campus. RTÉ resumed news from an outside unit, and Prime Minister Micheál Martin urged calm as checks continued.
Irish public broadcaster RTÉ’s buildings in Dublin were evacuated on Friday following a bomb threat.[1], [2]
Other media offices in the capital were also affected, including the radio station Newstalk and the Irish Independent newspaper group. Their staff left the buildings following threats. The evacuations disrupted normal newsroom operations across the city.[1]
Newstalk presenter Claire Byrne said the threat affecting her station had been deemed a hoax. Employees were told they could return to the building in central Dublin, and programming resumed. RTÉ’s news output was interrupted for more than an hour before it restarted from an outside broadcasting unit. Its south Dublin campus remained closed while police checked the buildings individually.[1]
A reporter said RTÉ received an email threatening an explosion within 45 minutes. Prime Minister Micheál Martin spoke to the broadcaster by telephone after news output resumed. He said the threat was worrying and being taken seriously, and urged people to remain calm and focused. Martin described the threats as a way of disrupting normal social activity and creating fear. A presenter relayed the email’s purported link to the previous day’s European aviation hoaxes; no common perpetrator had been established.[1]
