Blanchardstown Shopping Centre has been evacuated with a number of armed Garda units at the scene.
There are no further details yet.
People on social media have been posting what they saw.
#Garda evacuating Blanchardstown Shopping Centre pic.twitter.com/lzk9OE2xd9
— Robin Schiller (@11SchillRob) November 1, 2017
Just been evacuated from blanchardstown centre ...very calmly I might add!
— Elascol (@Elascol) November 1, 2017
Just in @blanchcentre and the whole place has been evacuated with armed Gardai in the centre. Anyone know what's happening? #Blanchardstown
— Ailbhe Garrihy (@Ailbhegarrihyx) November 1, 2017
The ERU have evacuated Blanchardstown shopping centre. pic.twitter.com/pFEOLyI1J0
— Photos of Dublin (@PhotosOfDublin) November 1, 2017
Dublin Bus say routes which serve the area have been re-routed while the incident is ongoing.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Customer Notice: Due to an ongoing incident routes 17A, 39/A 220, 236 238, 239 and 270 are unable to service Blanchardstown S.C <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DBSvcUpdate?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DBSvcUpdate</a></p>— Dublin Bus (@dublinbusnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/dublinbusnews/status/925797115967787008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2017</a></blockquote>
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