M1 closed in security alert
The M1 was closed in both directions between Lurgan and Moira in one of three security alerts to cause disruption on Easter Monday.
The motorway was shut after the discovery of a suspicious object at the side of the road just before 5pm and army technical officers were called to the scene.
In a separate incident several homes were evacuated in Antrim after a suspicious object was discovered on the doorstep of a house on the Rathenraw Estate.
The bomb squad were called to the property in Norfolk Square shortly after 11am.
A number of residents were asked to leave their homes and took shelter at a nearby community centre.
A controlled explosion was carried out.
Police later declared the alert an elaborate hoax.
In a third incident the Portadown to Dublin railway line was closed due to a security operation near Lurgan.
Police were searching the tracks at Lake Street following reports of a suspicious object shortly before 9am.
Train services were disrupted and passengers were transferred by bus from Lisburn to Portadown.
Translink said Enterprise customers were being provided with a substitution bus between Central Station in Belfast and Newry.
