Man guilty of possession of explosives was already serving suspended sentence

A 22-year-old Dublin man who pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to possession of explosives in his north Dublin home last September was remanded to a District Court to allow the court to consider a suspended sentence handed down for another offence.

Joseph Conlon of St Anne's Drive, Raheny pleaded guilty in February to the unlawful possession of explosive substances including a rectangular plastic Tupperware box containing 55 firework fuses, a round plastic Tupperware box containing 130 grams of firework pyrotechnic powder, a mortar and pestle, three Roman candle fireworks, a plastic tool box containing bulbs, wires, a pipe cutter, pliers, file and a roll of solder and a plastic bag containing match heads and empty firework wrapping.