Businessman the target of bomb

GARDAÍ are investigating why a businessman was targeted with a pipebomb in affluent Dublin 4.

The bomb, described by army experts as viable, was placed under a car outside the man’s house on the upmarket Eglinton Road in Donnybrook, on the city’s southside.

The man, who works in consultancy, received an anonymous phonecall at about midnight yesterday and was told there was a device under his car.