Man faces trial after child finds pipe bomb under prison officer's car

A 31-year-old man, who was charged after a pipe-bomb was found by a child under a prison officer’s car, has been sent forward for trial to the circuit court in Dublin, writes Tom Tuite.

Mark O’Shea, who is of no fixed abode but originally from Cork, is accused of unlawful possession of explosives at St Aidan’s Park on June 11 last when an army bomb disposal unit was called out to remove a suspicious device.