{"id":709573,"date":"2026-07-24T22:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709573\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:17:12","slug":"county-monaghan-bomb-law-student-charged-over-device-in-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709573\/","title":{"rendered":"County Monaghan bomb: Law student charged over device in car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 25-year-old law student has appeared in court charged over a bomb which was discovered in a car in the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Isobella Perrie Sullivan, from Abbeylands Park in Clane, County Kildare, was charged with the possession of explosives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was alleged she was driving the car which was intercepted by garda\u00ed (Irish police) near Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A defence solicitor told the court his client had been asked to take a bag to Northern Ireland and had not been aware what was in it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier on Friday, garda\u00ed (Irish police) told reporters their interception was part of an operation targeting dissident republican activity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The accused, who was arrested on Wednesday, was brought before a special sitting of Trim District Court in County Meath on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A member of the Garda Special Detective Unit told the court the car she was driving was stopped by officers on N2 at Aclint, south of Carrickmacross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old law student has appeared in court charged over a bomb which was discovered in a car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-709573","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}