Jail for man convicted of pipe bomb possession

A Dublin man has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for possessing a pipe bomb at a filling station in Co Waterford last year.

Samuel Devlin (aged 52), of Mountjoy Square, pleaded not guilty to the unlawful possession of an improvised explosive device at TOP garage, Butler's Town Roundabout, Cork Road, Waterford on October 15 last year.