Advertisement @lochside.garages The Wattlebridge Road in Newtownbutler was closed on Tuesday due to an ongoing security alert PICTURE: ANDREW PATON Man is arrested after Wattlebridge security alert Posted: 9:19 am February 5, 2021 By Jodie Curran A MAN aged in his 40s was arrested and questioned by officers from the Garda Special Detective Unit in connection with the Wattlebridge security alert. It is believed that the man was lifted at his home in Co Cavan last Thursday under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, after claims of a Continuity IRA sniper attack on a helicopter during a hoax border bomb alert last month.