A MAN AGED in his 40s, who was arrested after a bomb was found in a car travelling on the N2 near Carrickmacross in Co Monaghan earlier this week, has been charged.

The bomb was discovered following an intelligence-led search of the car on Wednesday afternoon.

The Army Bomb Disposal team was called in to make the device safe before it was removed for a forensic examination.

He will appear before the Special Criminal Court this evening at the Criminal Courts of Justice at 9pm.

This comes after a 25-year-old woman was charged in relation to the same incident yesterday evening.

Isobella Perrie Sullivan, a law student who has an address at Abbeylands Park in Clane, Co Kildare, was charged with the possession of explosives at a special sitting of Trim District Court.

Her solicitor Gavin Booth said she had been asked to take a bag to the north, and had not been aware what was in it.

Perrie Sullivan was granted bail but remains in custody ahead of a further bail hearing on Monday.

The bail conditions include a €15,000 independent surety, that she surrenders her passport, that she stays at an address approved by gardaí with a curfew of 9pm to 7am, that she has a mobile phone available 24/7 and that she signs in each day at Naas Garda Station.

Gardaí continue to investigate all the circumstances surrounding the incident.

– Additional reporting from PA.