Car damaged in second pipe bomb attack

Gardaí were today investigating a second pipe bomb device in north Dublin.

The alarm was raised shortly after midnight, when an explosion occurred in the driveway of a house at Roseglen Avenue in Kilbarrack.

It caused severe damage to a Renault Clio car parked in the driveway and the front window of the house was blown in.

“There were a number of people in the house who suffered shock but no other injuries,” said a garda spokesman.

It follows a pipe bomb attack on home of John Ward, a second-hand car dealer, in Glin Road, Coolock, on Wednesday. The bomb was concealed in a flask and had been left on top of the boot of a car in the driveway.

It consisted of nails, shotgun pellets and a quantity of explosives but no-one was injured when it went off.

The Army Explosive Ordinance Disposal team carried out an examination of the scene at Kilbarrack following the blast. The scene remained sealed off for further technical examination this morning.

Gardaí have appealed for anyone with information on the device to contact them.

Dissident republicans are suspected of supplying the pipe bombs to criminal gangs. Last December, gardaí intercepted a device contained in a lunchbox in a car on the M50.