Dead man found in Kildare identified as former bomb smuggler

A man who served time in jail for trying to smuggle an explosive twice the size of the Omagh bomb into the UK has been killed in a suspected assault.

Dead man found in Kildare identified as former bomb smuggler

A man who served time in jail for trying to smuggle an explosive twice the size of the Omagh bomb into the UK has been killed in a suspected assault.

The 56-year-old, named locally as Larry Keane, was found lying in a walkway near a housing estate in Athy, Co Kildare, at about midnight last night.

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