Submissions made in trial of suspected bomb makers

Closing submissions are expected to conclude at the Special Criminal Court next week in the trial of two men accused of having a massive haul of explosives near the border last year.

Joseph Fee (aged 40), of Blackstaff, Inniskeen, Co Monaghan, and Eamonn Matthews (aged 25), Dublin Road, Killeen, Newry, Co Down have pleaded not guilty to the unlawful possession of an explosive substance - ammonium nitrate and sugar (ANS) - and having the explosive with intent to endanger life at Thornfield, Inniskeen, Co Louth on June 13, 2003.