Five held after gardaí find bomb in beer keg

Five men are being questioned after a suspected dissident republican bomb plot was foiled near the border.

Five held after gardaí find bomb in beer keg

Five men are being questioned after a suspected dissident republican bomb plot was foiled near the border.

The men, aged from their 50s to 70s, were detained when a car carrying an improvised explosive, believed to be a home-made bomb in a beer keg, was stopped by armed gardaí.

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