{"id":604020,"date":"2026-07-25T19:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/604020\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:22:13","slug":"law-student-25-granted-bail-and-man-40-charged-over-car-bomb-seized-in-co-monaghan-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/604020\/","title":{"rendered":"Law student (25) granted bail and man (40) charged over car bomb seized in Co Monaghan \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 25-year-old law student has been granted bail after appearing before court in Co Meath<\/a> charged with possession of explosives.<\/p>\n

Another suspect, a man in his 40s, was also charged in relation to the investigation on Saturday, say garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n

He is due to appear before the Special Criminal Court this evening at 8:15pm.<\/p>\n

Isobella Perrie Sullivan, of Abbeylands Park, Clane, Co Kildare<\/a>, appeared before a special sitting of Trim District Court on Friday evening after a bomb was intercepted in a car<\/a> near the Border.<\/p>\n

She wore a pink White Fox Boutique hoodie as she listened to proceedings.<\/p>\n

At court on Friday, a Garda<\/a> officer outlined how Perrie Sullivan had been stopped by garda\u00ed on the N2 at Aclint, Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan<\/a>, suspected to be involved \u201cin IRA<\/a> operational activity\u201d.<\/p>\n

During a search of her vehicle, a bag was discovered in the rear seat that contained Semtex and a detonator, the court heard, prompting the area to be evacuated and Perrie Sullivan was arrested.<\/p>\n

The court heard that Perrie Sullivan was studying for a law degree and wanted to become a barrister.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed objected to bail due to the seriousness of the offence.<\/p>\n

Defence solicitor Gavin Booth, of Phoenix Law, said his client had been asked to take a bag to the North, and had not been aware what was in it, adding she had been \u201cmanipulated\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said she lived with her father in Kildare and wanted to become a barrister.<\/p>\n

He said both her parents are devastated and can\u2019t believe what has happened, adding that if granted bail they would intend to keep her on a \u201ctight rein and ensure she abides by all conditions\u201d.<\/p>\n

Judge Raymond Finnegan agreed to allow bail.<\/p>\n

It came with a number of conditions, which included an independent \u20ac15,000 surety, that she surrenders her passport, stays at an address approved by garda\u00ed, has a mobile phone number on which to be available 24\/7, to sign in every day at Naas Garda station and a curfew of 9pm to 7am.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed also requested another condition, that she not have any contact with anyone in the Saoradh political party or the New IRA. <\/p>\n

Earlier, Garda<\/a> Commissioner Justin Kelly<\/a> described \u201can extremely significant seizure\u201d. \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old law student has been granted bail after appearing before court in Co Meath charged with possession…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,6439,29801,3625,11,12,15,16,1873,35046,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-604020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-republican-army","tag-justin-kelly","tag-kildare","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-meath","tag-monaghan","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604020","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=604020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}