Two arrests after house raid

DETECTIVES investigating dissident republicans have arrested two men.

The pair were detained after the seizure of firearms and ammunition in a house raid in Dublin.

They are aged in their 40s and 20s. A Garda spokesman said: “As part of a planned operation, detectives from the special detective unit carried out a search of a house in the south inner-city area of Dublin.

“During the search three firearms and an assortment of ammunition — subject to technical examination — were recovered,” the spokesman added.

The men are being detained under Section 30 of the Offences against the State Act at Shankill and Kevin Street Garda stations.