Residents at a Clondalkin apartment block were evacuated and a team from the army bomb disposal unit called in after bomb-making equipment was discovered in one of the apartments, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

Enough explosive material to fully construct four pipe bombs was discovered during an armed raid on a Clondalkin apartment, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Armed detectives were acting on information that bomb-making equipment was found during a raid on a Clondalkin apartment when they arrested a young Dublin man in a car park next to the complex, a court has heard today.

A Monaghan man in his 20s failed to offer any explanation for why he had certain explosive materials in his presence when he was arrested during an armed raid on a Dublin apartment, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Explosive materials were discovered by Gardai who raided a Dublin apartment as part of a surveillance operation in Clondalkin, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Two of the men charged last month with possession of explosive materials in Dublin have been released on bail at the Special Criminal Court today.

One of the five men charged last week with possession of explosive materials in Dublin has been released on bail at the Special Criminal Court today.

The Special Criminal Court has remanded in custody five men arrested in connection with the discovery of explosive materials in a Dublin apartment.

A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy from Co Derry has drowned at his family’s holiday villa on Portugal’s Algarve coast.

The death of a six-year-old twin boy on a family holiday in Portugal sent shockwaves through his local community today.