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12/05/2014
Man Remains In Custody Over Bomb Find
A man remains in custody following the discovery of a fertiliser bomb in a car parked outside a hotel in Dublin on Saturday.
According to gardaí the bomb, which was made in a beer keg, was found just before 21:00 on Saturday at the Finnstown Hotel. It was inside a car with Northern Irish registration plates.
It is understood that the device was viable but was not primed.
In a follow-up operation gardaí arrested a 55-year-old known dissident republican at a flat in west Dublin.
Timing units, mercury switches and other bomb-making components were recovered from the flat.
Gardaí are now trying to establish if the device was in transit or to be collected and what the target may have been.
(MH/IT)
According to gardaí the bomb, which was made in a beer keg, was found just before 21:00 on Saturday at the Finnstown Hotel. It was inside a car with Northern Irish registration plates.
It is understood that the device was viable but was not primed.
In a follow-up operation gardaí arrested a 55-year-old known dissident republican at a flat in west Dublin.
Timing units, mercury switches and other bomb-making components were recovered from the flat.
Gardaí are now trying to establish if the device was in transit or to be collected and what the target may have been.
(MH/IT)
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