IRELAND\u2019S JUSTICE SYSTEM has \u201cserious questions to answer\u201d over bail granted to a woman charged with possession of explosives near the Irish border, the DUP leader has said.<\/p>\n
Gavin Robinson made the comments after a 25-year-old law student appeared before a district court after a bomb was found in her car in Co Monaghan on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Isobella Perrie Sullivan (25), of Abbeylands Park in Clane, Co Kildare, was stopped on the N2 at Aclint, Carrickmacross, and a bag was discovered in the back of her car containing Semtex and a detonator, the court heard.<\/p>\n
Her solicitor Gavin Booth said she had been asked to take a bag to the north, and had not been aware what was in it.<\/p>\n
Perrie Sullivan was granted bail but remains in custody ahead of a further bail hearing on Monday.<\/p>\n
The bail conditions include a \u20ac15,000 independent surety, that she surrenders her passport, stays at an address approved by garda\u00ed with a curfew of 9pm to 7am, has a mobile phone available 24\/7 and signs in each day at Naas Garda Station.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Robinson questioned the court\u2019s decision and whether it appreciated \u201cthe gravity\u201d of the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe discovery of a viable Semtex bomb should have reminded everyone that dissident republican terrorism remains a lethal threat,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe decision to grant bail will leave many people asking whether the justice system appreciates the gravity of that reality.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf involvement in the transport of a viable Semtex bomb is not enough to keep an accused person in custody, the Republic\u2019s justice system has some serious questions to answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cTerrorism is unlike any other form of criminality, and decisions in such cases must reflect the gravity of the threat posed to innocent lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another person, a man in his 40s, remains in custody at a Garda station in the Dublin area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRELAND\u2019S JUSTICE SYSTEM has \u201cserious questions to answer\u201d over bail granted to a woman charged with possession of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[162356,38166,239585,26188,61,60,3773,43,26062],"class_list":["post-567741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-carrickmacross","tag-dup","tag-explosives","tag-gavin-robinson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-monaghan","tag-news","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567741","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=567741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}