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Man held over car bomb found in Dublin before Giro d'Italia stage Car bomb found in Dublin thought to be for Northern Ireland attack
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A huge car bomb was found in Dublin hours before the climax of the Irish leg of the Giro d'Italia cycle race, police have said. A bomb found in a hotel on the western edge of Dublin was destined for a republican dissident attack across the border, it emerged on Monday.
The 500lb bomb, which was made from fertiliser mix, was discovered on Saturday night in the car park of a hotel in Lucan, west Dublin, Gardai said. The car had Belfast-registered number plates. The 50lb device was discovered in a Belfast registered car on Saturday night just hours before the climax of the Ireland stage of the Giro d'Italia cycle race.
Dissident republicans are being blamed for the device, although it is understood the hotel was not their target. The bomb, which was made of fertiliser mix, had been discovered in the hotel car park in Lucan, west Dublin. Hundreds of wedding party guests had to flee the luxury Finnstown Country House Hotel during a follow up security operation.
A Belfast man was arrested on Sunday in the Irish capital in connection with the bomb and is being questioned by detectives. Dissident republicans are being blamed for leaving the device although it is understood the hotel was not their target.
The Giro d'Italia opened in Belfast on Friday and Sunday's stage three took riders from Armagh to Dublin. A Belfast man was later arrested in the Irish capital in connection with the explosive find and is being questioned by Garda detectives.
The suspect is believed to have had connections with the hardline Continuity IRA, although he has more recently been linked with the new IRA terror alliance. The suspect was believed to be connected at one time to the hardline Continuity IRA although it is believed he has recently been linked with the new IRA terror alliance.
Under the Irish Republic's Offences Against the State Act the suspect can be held for up to 72 hours. Under the Irish Republic's anti-terror laws, the Offences Against the State Act, he can be held for up to 72 hours.
The movement of a huge explosive device from the north to the Republic is highly unusual; so-called "terrorist traffic" more often goes the other way across the border. The device, which was hidden inside a milk churn, also contained a sophisticated time power unit designed to set off the bomb, which was of a similar type to those used by the Provisional IRA during the Troubles.
The device, which was hidden inside a milk churn, contained a sophisticated timer similar to those used by the Provisional IRA during the Troubles. Gardai also found other bomb-making material including mercury tilt switches in a follow-up search operation at a property in central Dublin on Sunday.
Gardai found bomb-making material, including mercury tilt switches, in a follow-up search at a property in central Dublin on Sunday.
Irish army bomb disposal experts made the device safe at the scene but hundreds of guest attending a wedding at the hotel had to be evacuated on Saturday evening.Irish army bomb disposal experts made the device safe at the scene but hundreds of guest attending a wedding at the hotel had to be evacuated on Saturday evening.
Security sources in Northern Ireland said they believed the bomb was for a target in the region rather than anywhere in the Irish Republic.
Although dissident republicans have been involved in gangland-style warfare with non-political criminal gangs in Dublin, the sources said the seize of the device and the intelligence that led to its interception and later arrest indicated it was being prepared to be transported into Northern Ireland.
•This article was amended on Monday 12 May to correct the size of the bomb. It was a 50lb bomb and not a 500lb, as the article stated earlier