Real IRA boss bugged by gardaí as he plotted Charles bomb

Seamus McGrane was recorded in a pub in Dublin in April, 2015, a month before the prince’s visit to Ireland, say Diarmaid Mac Dermott and Daniel Hickey

Real IRA leader, Seamus McGrane, was bugged by gardaí, as he plotted in a Dublin pub, with another man, to carry out an operation involving explosives, during the run-up to the State visit of Prince Charles, two years ago.

The Garda National Surveillance Unit planted a sophisticated listening device in the snug of the Coachman’s Inn, on the Airport Road. It recorded conversations between McGrane, a founder of the Real IRA, and engineering graduate, Donal O’Coisdealbha.