It was lying on its side now, looking rather like a giant milk churn that had been tipped over.

Gardai made the discovery yesterday at the same site where they found a bomb hidden in a milk churn on Monday.

Only the milk churn rolled very slowly from step to step behind them, clanking as if calling out, 'Wait for me, I'm coming!'

The Army's explosive ordnance disposal team dismantled a bomb in a milk churn a short distance from the Border in Co Cavan, last evening.

The Tamlaght road with the milk churns.

They passed some milk churns.

We were at the bottom of the lane, near the wooden shelf by the road with the battered silver milk churns on it.