Several Irish media organisations received hoax bomb threats on Friday, leading to disrupted broadcasts and staff evacuations. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing The Guardian.
RTÉ Radio One’s Today With David McCullagh went off air on Friday morning and was replaced with music as staff huddled outside buildings at the national broadcaster’s Donnybrook campus.
Staff at other outlets including Newstalk Radio, Today FM, Virgin Media and the Irish Independent were also evacuated.
Radio One’s regular broadcast returned to air at 10.13am. “It has been quite an interesting morning on RTÉ,” said McCullagh.
The email, received before 9am, said an explosion would detonate within 45 minutes, said McCullagh. Police with sniffer dogs remained at the campus.
The emailed threats came after separate threats to airlines on Thursday disrupted dozens of flights across Europe.