Judge gives two men six years for possessing pipe bomb

Two Dublin men who admitted having a pipe bomb on the city's northside were sentenced to six years imprisonment, with the final three years suspended, by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Christopher Mc Carthy (aged 29) of the The Vale, Woodfarm Acres, Palmerstown and Daniel McFaul (aged 22), of Croftwood Crescent, Ballyfermot had pleaded guilty last year to the unlawful possession of an improvised explosive device containing nitro cellulose and a timing power unit at Belcamp Crescent, Dublin on January 20, 2005.