Man appears in court on explosion charges

A Dundalk man appeared before the Special Criminal Court this morning charged with conspiracy to cause an explosion outside an Armagh police station last month.

David Murphy (aged 30) with an address at Ashling Park, Cox’s Demesne, Dundalk, County Louth was charged with “unlawfully and maliciously” conspiring with others to cause on explosion of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury, contrary to the Explosives Act.