Six-year sentence for explosives charges

A 23-year-old Dublin man who pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to possession of explosives in his north Dublin home last September was jailed for six years today.

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 on September 30 last year.