That will include refurbishing bedrooms and bathrooms for patients and providing comfortable overnight facilities for families as well as improving hospice gardens and green spaces.

Gardaí said that the house and gardens would involve an intrusive search, as well as technical and forensic examinations.

More than 60% of these incidents involved children playing outdoors - gardens, streets, farms, even near schools - where bombs, typically used during elections to terrorise opponents, were hidden.

Earlier this month the government confirmed it had dropped plans to ban smoking in pub and restaurant gardens in England, following fears about the impact on the hospitality industry.

These results add to a growing understanding among anthropologists that Indigenous people in the region managed so-called forest gardens that fed large numbers of people without domesticated crops.