{"id":585980,"date":"2026-08-07T12:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585980\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:34:11","slug":"woman-appears-in-court-in-relation-to-bomb-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585980\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman appears in court in relation to bomb charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A law student charged in relation to a bomb intercepted in a car near the border has appeared in court.<\/p>\n<p>Isobella Perrie Sullivan, aged 25, of Abbeylands Park, Clane, Co Kildare, had previously been granted bail after being charged with possession of explosives.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Perrie Sullivan attended a brief hearing at Monaghan District Court today.<\/p>\n<p>She stood when her case was called. The matter was adjourned until 28 September after a garda said the DPP is waiting for updates.<\/p>\n<p>At a previous hearing, Ms Perrie Sullivan&#8217;s defence solicitor said she had been asked to take a bag to the North and had not been aware what was in it, adding that she had been &#8220;manipulated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The car was stopped on the N2 at Aclint, Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, in July.<\/p>\n<p>During a search of the vehicle, a bag was discovered in the rear seat that contained an amount of military grade explosive and a detonator.<\/p>\n<p>In court previously, Ms Perrie Sullivan was granted bail with conditions, including that she not have any contact with anyone in Saoradh or the New IRA.<\/p>\n<p>Also charged in relation to the bomb interception is Simon O&#8217;Donovan, an employee at a Dublin museum.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old, with an address at Sperrin Road in Dublin 12, is charged with possession of an explosive substance at St Laurence\u2019s Road in Chapelizod in Dublin on Wednesday 22 July.<\/p>\n<p>He has been remanded in custody until 5 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A law student charged in relation to a bomb intercepted in a car near the border has appeared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-585980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585980","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=585980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}