Man in Roscrea siege may yet face charges

THE man responsible for the major security alert in Roscrea when he threatened to blow up a rented house was last night being treated at St Michael’s psychiatric hospital in Clonmel.

Senior gardaí confirmed, however, that 55-year-old Jim Hourigan could still face a charge of reckless endangerment.

His home-made bomb was elaborate, gardaí said, but it was not capable of being activated.