Wicklow man gets five years for explosives charges

A Co. Wicklow man was jailed for five years by the Special Criminal Court today after he admitted explosives and ammunition charges.

Colin John Conlon (aged 38), with an address at Burgage Industrial Estate, Blessington, Co Wicklow, was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant and extradited from London last June.

He had failed to turn up for his trial in July last year.

In October, he pleaded guilty to the unlawful possession of an improvised explosive device at the M1 motorway at Cloghran, Co Dublin on November 25, 2005, and the unlawful possession of 104 rounds of assorted ammunition on the same date.

The court sentenced Conlon to five years' imprisonment on each count and ordered the sentences to run concurrently.