Dissidents ‘still pose severe threat’

DISSIDENT republicans pose a severe threat and, while their numbers remain small, their capabilities are growing, Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has warned.

Speaking after the discovery of a suspected major dissident republican bomb-making operation in Dundalk and the arrest of two men, Mr Ahern said there was no doubt that a bombing attempt had been foiled.

“There was fairly major engineering in process,” he told RTÉ.