Bomb-making equipment found in house, court told

Bomb-making material with sufficient force to cause a large bomb to explode was found by gardaí when they raided a house in Limerick city last November, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

Forensic scientist Michael Norton from the state laboratory told the court that a brown putty-like material recovered from the fireplace of the house was 720 grams of Semtex, made up of a mixture of the explosive chemicals PETN and RDX.