Two-year sentence for man who planted hoax bombs

A Dublin man has been jailed for two years after he planted two hoax bombs in the city centre causing residents to be evacuated and roads to be cordoned off for a total of five and half hours.

Dwayne Barry (aged 22) of Tom Kelly Flats, Charlemont Street, used “Pringles” tubes, screws , nails, drill bits, copper wire, torn black plastic bags and various types of masking tape to make the tubular devices.