Charmless security grounds air passenger over pea-sized gun

WHEN is a lucky charm not a lucky charm?

When it’s the size of pea and the shape of a gun and Dublin Airport security staff are convinced it’s a licence to kill.

Even Bond’s tech wizard Q would have snorted at this one – that a tiny gun-shaped charm attached to the mobile phone sock encasing a passenger’s phone sparked a security alert after passing through one of the airport’s X-ray machines.