Three-year sentence for young bomb hoaxer

A young Dublin man who called in hoax bomb scares in Rathmines for “a laugh” has received a three-year sentence for these offences and a robbery.

Detective Garda Aidan Duffy revealed that colleagues investigating the two hoax calls after the Army Bomb Disposal Unit had been contacted and Rathmines residents evacuated, nominated Shane McKeever (aged 20) as the caller from the voice on the recording and tracked the number to his mother’s phone.