{"id":586084,"date":"2026-08-07T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586084\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:56:07","slug":"law-student-charged-over-intercepted-semtex-bomb-appears-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586084\/","title":{"rendered":"Law student charged over intercepted Semtex bomb appears in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A LAW STUDENT charged in relation to a bomb intercepted in a car near the border with the North has appeared in court.<\/p>\n<p>Isobella Perrie Sullivan (25), of Abbeylands Park, Clane, Co Kildare, had previously been granted bail after being charged with possession of explosives.<\/p>\n<p>Perrie Sullivan attended a brief hearing at Monaghan District Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>She stood when her case was called. The matter was adjourned until 28 September after a garda officer said the DPP is waiting for updates.<\/p>\n<p>At a previous hearing, her 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 \u201cmanipulated\u201d.<\/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 Semtex military grade explosive and a detonator.<\/p>\n<p>In court previously, 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\u2019Donovan, an employee at a Dublin museum.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old is charged with possession of an explosive substance at St Laurence\u2019s Road in Chapelizod in the city 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 with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[247371,200076,54,239585,61,60,247372,177117,43,247373],"class_list":["post-586084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bomb-interception","tag-co-monaghan","tag-courts","tag-explosives","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-isobella-perrie-sullivan","tag-monaghan-district-court","tag-news","tag-semtex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586084","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=586084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}