Men caught making pipe bombs

Two Dublin men who were caught red handed making pipe bombs for the INLA were each sentenced to eight years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court today.

Jonathan Keogh (aged 23), of Upper Sean Mac Dermott Street and Garret Pigott (aged 26) of Philipsburgh Terrace, Dublin 3 pleaded guilty to the unlawful possession of explosive substances, including four pieces of steel piping, eight metal caps, bulbs, batteries, wiring, travel alarm clocks, propellant powder and 10cm-long nails at The Crescent, Park West, Clondalkin on September 9 last year.