Court gives man seven years for possessing pipe bomb

A Dublin man has been jailed for seven years by the Special Criminal Court today for having a pipe bomb in Ringsend last year.

Noel Mooney (aged 29), of Leo Fitzgerald House, Dublin 2 pleaded guilty in July to the unlawful possession of an improvised explosive device –a pipe bomb- at Sean Moore Park, Ringsend on May 8 last year.