Kerry resident with 'keen interest in bomb-making as a hobby' given six-year sentence

Ivan Gilder pleaded guilty to seven charges under the Offences Against the State and the Criminal Justice Acts

Ivan Gilder was jailed at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee. File Picture: Andy Gibson

A 63-year-old man who the court was told “has a keen interest in bomb-making as a hobby” has been sentenced to six years in prison for manufacturing explosives and having firearms and ammunition at his home near Sneem, Co Kerry, in March 2021.

The final year and a half was suspended and Ivan Gilder was jailed for four and a half years at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee, on Monday.