A hotel was evacuated in Waterford City this evening following a security threat. Three hundred and two guests were staying in Tracey's Hotel on the Quay at the time. The building was searched and the gardaí declared the alert a hoax at 8.30pm tonight. "The gardaí started arriving about two minutes after that and we continued to evacuate. The evacuation of everybody took just under nine minutes for 302 guests."

Source: Evening echo September 13, 2018 21:11 UTC