Naval Service divers and explosive experts yesterday made safe a second World War anti-submarine mine packed with 360lbs of explosives which had been dragged up by a trawler fishing off the southwest ...

A chemistry department at a British university was recently evacuated after a student made the known explosive, TATP. The chemical, tri-cyclic acetone peroxide, or TATP, was made by accident as the ...

Defence Forces members carried out a controlled explosion on an improvised explosive device found in Cork city today. A number of homes were evacuated after the bomb was discovered this morning at ...

A viable improvised explosive device has been discovered by Irish police near Dublin. It was in the luggage compartment of a bus on the outskirts of Maynooth, Co Kildare. A controlled explosion was ...

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A viable improvised explosive device (IED) was made safe this evening at Ballysheedy, Co Limerick following a planned Garda search. A viable improvised explosive device (IED) was made safe this ...

Over a ton of explosives was found in a slurry spreader at a disused farmhouse outside Beragh, near Omagh. The report shows the army setting off a hundred pound bomb. British Army personnel examining ...

Following his arrest, Behan immediately made admissions to gardai and fully admitted his role in the event. Behan told gardaí that he and another man, who was a casual worker at the quarry, found the ...