Plot against tycoon 'cowardly', says minister

The dissident republican terrorists suspected of planting a bomb at the home of millionaire tycoon Lord Ballyedmond near the Irish border in Co Louth were today branded cowards by a Northern Ireland Office Minister.

David Hanson condemned those responsible for putting the device in a downstairs room of the house being built by Lord Ballyedmond (Dr Edward Haughey) at Dungooley, near Hackballscross, on the border between Louth and Armagh.