Viable pipe bombs found in suburban garden shed

DETECTIVES are investigating criminal links to nine pipe bombs hiddenin a suburban garden shed in Dublin.

The devices were uncovered at the rear of a recently vacated semi-detached house in Swords, north Dublin, by Garda officers acting on a tip-off.

A number of neighbouring homes in Bunbury Crescent, Applewood, were evacuated for several hours while Army bomb disposal experts made the scene safe.