{"id":599922,"date":"2025-11-28T20:51:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599922\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T20:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:51:26","slug":"chimney-corner-object-found-during-security-alert-in-co-antrim-nothing-untoward-says-psni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599922\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimney Corner: Object found during\u00a0security alert in Co Antrim \u2018nothing untoward\u2019, says PSNI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">A road closure is in place\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A road closure was in place due to the incident\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7ae6208a-ec77-4037-8e20-7480f006a11e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A road closure was in place due to the incident<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ATOs were in attendance at the scene\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c2eba3e7-9077-4211-9db1-00d18f972206.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">ATOs were in attendance at the scene<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumbnail: A road closure was in place due to the incident\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764363086_555_7ae6208a-ec77-4037-8e20-7480f006a11e.jpg\" height=\"40px\" width=\"auto\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumbnail: ATOs were in attendance at the scene\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764363086_392_c2eba3e7-9077-4211-9db1-00d18f972206.jpg\" height=\"40px\" width=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An object found following a security alert in Co Antrim was \u201cnothing untoward\u201d, police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Antrim Road had been closed between the Chimney Corner Hotel and the Crown &amp; Shamrock Bar following the alert on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Public transport in the area was also subject to disruption as police, including Ammunition Technical Officers (ATOs) attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A road closure was in place due to the incident\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7ae6208a-ec77-4037-8e20-7480f006a11e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A road closure was in place due to the incident<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">News Catch Up &#8211; Friday 28 November<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A PSNI spokesperson said: \u201cAn earlier security alert in the Antrim Road area of Newtownabbey has now ended. Police received a report at approximately 10.20am today, Friday November 28, of a suspicious object in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cOfficers attended the scene along with Ammunition Technical Officers (ATO) who examined the object which has been deemed as nothing untoward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cTemporary cordons in the area have now been lifted \u2013 and those who were evacuated during the public safety operation have now returned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A road closure is in place A road closure was in place due to the incident ATOs were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1211,1300,6570,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-599922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-antrim-news","9":"tag-liam-tunney","10":"tag-north-belfast-news","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115629306345672856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}