Bomb-making equipment find sparked evacuation, court told

Residents at a Clondalkin apartment block were evacuated and a team from the army bomb disposal unit called in after bomb-making equipment was discovered in one of the apartments, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

Evidence was being heard in the trial of three men in their 20s accused of unlawfully possessing explosive materials at an apartment in The Crescent, Park West Pointe, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 on September 9, 2008.