Two arrested after suspected firearm is found in bin in Dublin city centre

Two people have been arrested following the seizure of a suspected firearm and ammunition in Dublin city centre in the early hours of Sunday.

The two were detained after gardaí on patrol observed an altercation between a number of individuals at Abbey Street. When gardaí approached the individuals involved, they observed a man discarding an object into a nearby bin on Liffey Street.

The bin was inspected by gardaí and a suspected firearm and ammunition was recovered from it.

A man in his 30s and a woman in her 20s were arrested at the scene. They are currently being detained at Store Street Garda station under section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939.