{"id":507256,"date":"2026-05-28T17:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/507256\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:37:19","slug":"three-inside-home-as-bomb-explodes-in-co-antrim-village-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/507256\/","title":{"rendered":"Three inside home as bomb explodes in Co Antrim village \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Three people have escaped injury after they were inside a house in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/co-antrim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/co-antrim\/\">Co Antrim <\/a>village when a bomb exploded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police received a report of a pipe bomb being placed on the living room window ledge of the property in the Rectory Gardens area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/broughshane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/broughshane\/\">Broughshane,<\/a> by two men in dark clothing at around 11pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The device exploded, causing extensive damage to the windows of the property and the living room. Three residents were inside at the time but were uninjured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two men left the scene and headed in the direction of Ballymena. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/jeffrey-donaldson-kissed-a-young-teenager-and-put-his-tongue-in-her-mouth-trial-told-3WYNDKEXTNF2XBMLXNZWBPFIIM\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jeffrey Donaldson kissed a young teenager and put his tongue in her mouth, trial told\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EKOCEK2C65MEJN7KYPOHQIX7SQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/jeffrey-donaldson-sent-letter-to-alleged-victim-admitting-he-was-a-sinner-trial-told-T2SDCZZATRAKDEJCOWSYFXU2DQ\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jeffrey Donaldson sent letter to alleged victim admitting he was a &#x2018;sinner&#x2019;, trial told\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SSQ4JSXCXFPFPIWZMPHNVEBYWA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/psni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/psni\/\">PSNI <\/a>officers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/ato\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/ato\/\">Ammunition Technical Officers (ATO)<\/a> attended, and cordons remain in place at the scene on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ulster Unionist Party Leader Jon Burrows MLA and Ulster Unionist Braid Councillor Alan Barr issued a joint statement on the attack saying:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cLast night\u2019s pipe bomb attack in Broughshane was a reprehensible act. Broughshane is a quiet, welcoming village, and its people want nothing to do with such criminality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe device, placed beneath a living room window, endangered not only those inside the property but also any members of the public who may have been passing by.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms, and we urge anyone with information to come forward to the PSNI.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have escaped injury after they were inside a house in a Co Antrim village when a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[26203,9,10,220163,88256,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,983,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-507256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-alerts","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-broughshane","tag-co-antrim","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-security","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116653421272404326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}