{"id":126597,"date":"2025-11-07T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126597\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:40:08","slug":"two-men-detained-in-operation-against-far-right-terror-group-due-in-court-in-co-offaly-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126597\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men detained in operation against far-right terror group due in court in Co Offaly \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two men arrested by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\">garda\u00ed<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2025\/11\/06\/gardai-arrest-far-right-suspects-intent-on-minority-attack-in-anti-terrorism-operation\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2025\/11\/06\/gardai-arrest-far-right-suspects-intent-on-minority-attack-in-anti-terrorism-operation\/\">part of a cross-Border antiterrorism operation <\/a>are due in court in Tullamore, Co Offaly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The men, in their 30s and 40s, are suspected of being members of a violent fringe far-right organisation intent on attacking people from a minority group, garda\u00ed believe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A vehicle in which the men were travelling was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2025\/11\/06\/gardai-arrest-far-right-suspects-intent-on-minority-attack-in-anti-terrorism-operation\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2025\/11\/06\/gardai-arrest-far-right-suspects-intent-on-minority-attack-in-anti-terrorism-operation\/\">stopped and searched by garda\u00ed in <\/a>Abbeyleix, Co Laois, on Wednesday. Pipe ends and sealant, a bulletproof vest, cable ties, hatchets, knives and a Tricolour were discovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Garda operation was carried out by the Special Detective Unit (SDU), which investigates terrorism and other threats to the State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Separately, in the North, four explosive devices were discovered at a property in the village of Annalong, Co Down. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)<\/a> also seized items such as laptops, which are to be examined, and confirmed the searches were carried out under the Terrorism Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In recent years, garda\u00ed have carried out significant operations investigating far-right activists and have treated some of their crimes, including threats to politicians, as national security issues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men arrested by garda\u00ed as part of a cross-Border antiterrorism operation are due in court in Tullamore,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,43,21754],"class_list":{"0":"post-126597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}