A MAN who constructed a timer for an explosive device months after gardaí uncovered a huge cache of explosive components in a shed at his parent’s home has been jailed for 12 years at the Special Criminal Court.

A Wexford man who constructed a timer for an explosive device months after gardaí uncovered a huge cache of explosive components in a shed at his parent’s home has been jailed for 12 years at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin.

A “significant” dissident republican explosives dump and arms cache has been uncovered by anti-terror gardaí.

A major dissident republican explosives dump and arms cache was uncovered today by anti-terror detectives.