Second pipe bomb found in 24 hours

FOR the second time in less than 24 hours, a pipe bomb was found early yesterday in the Crumlin area of Dublin’s southside.

The device, discovered at the door of a house in Crumlin Park, was made safe by an army bomb disposal team.

Gardaí are following “a definite line of inquiry”, according to the Garda Press Office.

Detectives are reportedly not making any immediate connection between the two pipe bomb incidents in Crumlin. However, the possibility of a link was not firmly ruled out.

“There are a number of lines of inquiry being followed,” said a Garda spokesperson.

A Defence Forces statement said the team had been called to an address in Crumlin Park shortly after midnight.

The statement said a “viable improvised explosive device” was made safe at the scene without recourse to a controlled explosion.

Meanwhile, shortly before 2am on Sunday, an army bomb disposal unit dismantled and removed for inspection a homemade pipe bomb from under a car in Captain’s Road, Crumlin.

The use of pipe bombs has become more prevalent in recent times.

Three weeks ago, an army unit destroyed a device in a controlled explosion at Fairview Park on the morning of the Ireland v Scotland rugby match in nearby Croke Park, on the city’s northside.

According to the Defence Forces, “these homemade bombs are crude, unstable and potentially very dangerous”.