Accused denies having any part in bomb-making plot

A young Belfast man told detectives he was in Dublin to meet someone about “finance and accommodation”, after his arrest at a Clondalkin apartment on suspicion of unlawfully possessing bomb-making material, the Special Criminal Court has heard today.

Terry McConnell (aged 28) of Tullymore Gardens, Andersontown, Belfast is one of three young men accused of unlawfully having explosive material in their possession at an apartment in The Crescent, Park West Pointe, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 on September 9, 2008.