Two teens and woman held in pipe bomb probe

TWO teenage brothers and a woman in her 50s were last night being held by Gardaí in connection with a pipe-bomb attack on a house in Rathkeale early on Tuesday morning.

The arrests of the woman and the youths, aged 14 and 17, were made when a force of more than 30 gardaí under Supt Joe Roe and Det Inspector Tom O’Connor raided a house in the Fair Green area of Rathkeale at 7am yesterday.

The three are being held at garda stations in Newcastle West, Henry Street and Roxboro Road under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act.