Two men have been arrested and suspected explosive materials have been seized as part of a “counter-terrorism operation” in Carlingford, Co Louth.<\/p>\n
The Garda Special Detective Unit seized “component parts and suspected explosive material” following the search, which was assisted by the Defence Forces Explosive Ordnance Disposal team.<\/p>\n
Two men, aged in their 20s and 50s, were arrested as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n
Both were detained at Garda stations in the northeast of the country under the Offences Against the State Act, 1939.<\/p>\n
Speaking about what garda\u00ed described as a “long-running investigation”, Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly said it was “a particularly significant find”.<\/p>\n
“This search and arrest operation by our counter-terrorism unit, the Special Detective Unit, demonstrates the important work carried out by Garda national security personnel every day to protect people on this island.<\/p>\n
“It also shows that we must continue to degrade and dismantle the threat from those who are intent on destroying peace by harming others.<\/p>\n
“I have been in contact with the PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher this morning and our close co-operation in relation to countering dissident groups continues.<\/p>\n
“I would also like to thank the Defence Forces for its assistance in today’s search operation.”<\/p>\n
Mr Boutcher welcomed what he termed the “significant seizure and arrests”.<\/p>\n
“This excellent police work has prevented serious harm or loss of life,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested and suspected explosive materials have been seized as part of a “counter-terrorism operation”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-663363","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\/663363","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=663363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}