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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
By Gráinne Ní Aodha

Man charged in connection with bomb seized near border

A man in his 40s will appear in courts on Saturday (PA) - (PA Archive)

Gardaí investigating a suspected dissident republican bomb intercepted in a car near the Irish border have charged a man in his 40s in connection with the case.

The man is due to appear before the Special Criminal Court at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin at 9pm on Saturday.

A vehicle travelling on the N2 near Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, on Wednesday afternoon was stopped and searched by detectives in an intelligence-led swoop.

A 25-year-old law student appeared before a district court on Friday evening charged with possession of explosives.

Isobella Perrie Sullivan, of Abbeylands Park in Clane, Co Kildare, was stopped on the N2, where a bag was discovered in the back of her car containing Semtex and a detonator, Trim District Court heard.

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-euro 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.

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