Bomb threat at Intel brings terrorist threat closer to home

Coming less than a week after the Paris terror attack, investigators are under pressure to find out who was behind the incident at one of Ireland’s best known workplaces, reports Cormac O’Keeffe

JUST last weekend, Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan said watching the terrorist attacks in Paris had brought home to her the “havoc and mayhem” three determined people can inflict on a nation.

Now she and her senior officers are scrambling to determine whether or not that threat has literally been brought home with the bomb scare at the US computer giant Intel in Kildare by someone citing the name Islamic State.