Man was carrying pipe-bomb in his pants

A DUBLINER who carried a pipe-bomb in the shape of a tennis ball with a fuse inside his pants on instructions to deliver it from Waterford to Cork has been jailed for 20 months.

The bomb, which had the capacity to create a fireball rather than explode, was to be thrown at the door of a house in Cork city.

However, gardaí obtained information about the transportation of the explosive device and intercepted a white Hyundai car at Midleton.