TheJournal.ie uses cookies. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Click here to find out more »
Dublin: 17 °C Wednesday 19 June, 2013

Two viable explosive devices found in Sligo

A controlled explosion was carried out on one of the devices at the scene, while the other was brought to a secure military location to be examined.

File photo
File photo
Image: Brian O'Leary/Photocall Ireland

TWO VIABLE EXPLOSIVE devices found in Sligo late last night have been made safe by an Army bomb disposal team.

A controlled explosion was carried out on one of the devices at the scene, while the other was brought to a secure military location for forensic examination.

The devices were found at the entrance to a forest on Holy Well Road.

The bomb disposal team arrived at the scene at 9.30pm last night following a request from Gardaí, who had cordoned off the area. The scene was declared safe at 11.45pm.

The remains of the devices are due to be handed over to Gardaí today to assist in their investigations.

This is the 59th viable Improvised Explosive Device (IED) made safe by an Army bomb disposal team so far this year.

  • Share on Facebook
  • Email this article
  •  

Read next:

Comments (15 Comments)

  • Republicans for hire!. Doesn’t this 59th incident in the current year show you what our great republican heroes are really made of. How many innocent people have been put at risk by these mindless and moronic thugs. That’s fifty nine times our military personnel have risked their lives this year alone to protect us .

    Reply
  • Could the Journal investigate this story in a little more depth as the issue of viable anti personnel bombs being defused over fifty nine times has put our Armed Forces Members at massive risk of injury and loss of life. Already this year a child in Wicklow was seriously injured by one of these so called devices. Is this a case of Republicans hiring themselves out to criminal gangs or is something even more sinister at work in our Communities.

    Reply
    • On the Dole…please don’t embarrass yourself anymore than your question already does it quite nicely.

      Reply
    • On the dole…who are you speaking for when you use the word “us ” in your question.

      Reply
    • It’s something we’ve been trying to look into for a while now Mick. We’ll keep on it.

      Reply
    • Mick- It is not embarrassing to ask you for proof, considering you seem so adamant that republicans carried out these actions. Given the amount of gang crime, youth violence and easy access to the Internet, where bomb making skills are readily available, it does not make sense to rush to judge the republican movement. Perhaps, in the eighties and early nineties, when the provo’s were blowing up cars, etc. on a daily basis, but in this day and age on-the-dole is right to ask you why you rushed to this conclusion, and why you seem aggrieved by his need for clarity? We live in a very different Ireland now, where republican violence is not the big player anymore.

      Reply
  • Mick, you’re the one who should be taking a look at your own views. Very few people think it has anything to do with republicanism. Most people would suspect this is a further incident relating to criminal activity, and I’m guessing its related to the drug industry and turf wars or outstanding debt owes to the hierarchy. You don’t need former/ current republicans to teach you how to make I.E.D’s. It’s all on the Internet now. So you know what the Internet is mick?

    Reply
    • It is a matter of public record that Republican have been arrested in the very recent past with these devices found in their possession. The Gardai have made similar statements in the subject. However on these pages there are a number of people who challenge these views in the same language on a regular basis.
      What proof do I or others have.
      There is no proof that Republicans are involved.
      Any idiot could learn to build these devices from the Internet.
      The vast majority of us are not idiots and we know only too well that certain groups within the fringes of our Society have used protectionism and guns for hire as a little extra as they either contemplate retirement or expand their usual business interests.

      Reply
    • As you just said yourself mick, there is no proof that republicans are involved. So why did you start your first comment on this thread with “republicans for hire!”. I think there lies the issue other people have with your comments. You write comments like a troll. And I am not having a go at you. You just seem to like courting controversy. And may only be writing these comments to get reactions only You don’t seem to like the reactions you are getting.

      Reply
  • That’s Westlife for ya!

    Reply
  • yasser 24/07/12 #

    Hi Mick, you seem to be be an expert on everything can you tell us do you read the beano.

    Reply

Add New Comment