Detectives are investigating if the discovery of a viable explosive device in a Louth pub is connected with another incident at the same bar two years ago.

Gardaí have arrested three men in connection with a fire in Drogheda, Co Louth, which left a woman in her 70s injured.

Gardaí believe a house fire in Co. Louth overnight , which left an elderly woman with serious burn injuries, may have been started maliciously.

I WRITE in response to Sean McKiernan’s letter (Irish Examiner, January 30) which echoed Michael McDowell’s view that even the smallest amount of cannabis is at the centre of a web of death and mayhem.