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13/01/2011
Mortars Found In Irish Police Raid
Gardaí investigating the activities of dissident republicans have arrested five men in the Monasterevin area of Co Kildare.
In an operation that began yesterday, members from the Special Detective Unit, Emergency Response Unit supported by local Gardai swooped and detectives are continuing to question the men arrested in connection with what they said was the discovery of a "bomb factory" on the Co Kildare farm on Wednesday.
Searches at the property in Quinsborough have since uncovered nine mortars and various components and are today continuing.
Detectives believe the dissident group Oglaigh na hEireann had been making tubes for mortar bombs at the property and said that timers and explosives could then have been installed later for use in NI.
The five men, aged in their 20s, 40s and 50s, were arrested and are being held at Tullamore, Naas and Newbridge garda stations under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act and can be detained for up to three days.
The recently published Irish Policing Plan 2011 identified the links between organised crime gangs and subversive groups among key issues.
"National security and the reduction of crime and fear of crime are part of our core business," said the new Gardaí boss Martin Callinan at the launch of his new policing plan that made made much of tackling dissident republican activity as one of the Gardaí's top priorities.
(BMcC/GK)
In an operation that began yesterday, members from the Special Detective Unit, Emergency Response Unit supported by local Gardai swooped and detectives are continuing to question the men arrested in connection with what they said was the discovery of a "bomb factory" on the Co Kildare farm on Wednesday.
Searches at the property in Quinsborough have since uncovered nine mortars and various components and are today continuing.
Detectives believe the dissident group Oglaigh na hEireann had been making tubes for mortar bombs at the property and said that timers and explosives could then have been installed later for use in NI.
The five men, aged in their 20s, 40s and 50s, were arrested and are being held at Tullamore, Naas and Newbridge garda stations under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act and can be detained for up to three days.
The recently published Irish Policing Plan 2011 identified the links between organised crime gangs and subversive groups among key issues.
"National security and the reduction of crime and fear of crime are part of our core business," said the new Gardaí boss Martin Callinan at the launch of his new policing plan that made made much of tackling dissident republican activity as one of the Gardaí's top priorities.
(BMcC/GK)
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