'It has had a detrimental effect on those two major retail businesses that were affected, and on the town in general.'
to Longford Gardaí regarding suspicious devices, and a number of retail premises were cleared in Longford town.Gardaí have stated that the response involved the emergency services, specialist canine units and Members of the Defence Forces.'Huge distress'County Council, Colm Murray, is urging anyone with information to contact Gardaí.
"The person at the back of this, I'm sure they thought it was a very funny joke," he said."The reality is, it wasn't." "It has caused people huge distress. It has taken up a huge amount of Garda time and resources on Saturday evening. "It has had a detrimental effect on those two major retail businesses that were affected, and on the town in general.
"Certainly, if anyone has any modicum of information at all, I'd urge you definitely to come forward to the Guards."
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