Gardai and Army bomb-disposal unit at the scene where a suspect device was found in Kilnapp Avenue. Picture: Darragh Kane

A suspected explosive device which led to an evacuation of a number of homes in Farranree was sent by post to a house in the area.
It is understood the intended target of the device was a man in his 30s who recently moved back to the area. The alarm was raised at around 10am yesterday after the package was opened when it was delivered to a house at Kilnap Place.
There were a number of people in the property at the time.
They and neighbouring houses were evacuated as the device was removed by the Army’s Bomb Disposal Unit.
Concerned neighbours gathered in groups at both ends of Kilnap Place to watch as gardaí and the Army worked to make the area safe.
An elderly man who has been living in the area for decades said the situation was frightening and that the actions of some people were disrupting the lives of the innocent.
Sinn Féin’s Cllr Mick Nugent said it was the second such incident in the Farranree area in just over 18 months, in what is usually a quiet area.
He added: “It is a very quiet settled community, so something like this would be very worrying for the local people.”
Sinn Féin’s justice spokesman Jonathan O’Brien also visited the scene.
Fine Gael city councillor Joe O’Callaghan said he “utterly and absolutely condemned such lawlessness.”
He added that Cork should not be allowed get a reputation for gangland violence such as that in Limerick or Dublin because of such incidents.
“That simply cannot be allowed to happen.
The community and gardaí need to stand together and together crime will be prevented and solved.
“If this was supposed to be a sinister message for the intended target, I would ask the perpetrator to instead think of the innocents that could have been maimed or even killed by the device.”