{"id":606566,"date":"2026-07-27T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/606566\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:16:12","slug":"i-thought-i-was-getting-out-today-law-student-charged-over-explosives-find-remanded-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/606566\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I thought I was getting out today&#8217;: Law student charged over explosives find remanded in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A LAW STUDENT accused of transporting a bomb across Ireland has been remanded in custody with consent to bail.<\/p>\n<p>Isobella Perrie Sullivan (25), of Abbeylands Park, Clane, Co Kildare, appeared wearing a white-coloured T-shirt with the logo \u201cfaith over fear\u201d via video link from the D\u00f3chas Centre in Dublin before Monaghan District Court this morning.<\/p>\n<p>She was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/monaghan-suspected-bomb-court-appearance-7112922-Jul2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charged<\/a> with possession of explosives at a special sitting of Trim District Court in Co Meath on Friday evening after a bomb was intercepted in a car near the border.<\/p>\n<p>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 she had been \u201cmanipulated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She was then granted bail with a host of conditions which included a \u20ac15,000 independent surety, that she surrenders her passport, stays at an address approved by garda\u00ed with a curfew of 9pm to 7am, has a mobile phone available 24\/7 and signs in each day to Naas garda station.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Judge Raymond Finnegan heard that her defence lawyer was not present in court and said she would be remanded with consent to bail.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Perrie Sullivan put to the judge: \u201cI thought I was getting out today with bail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The judge said that he had not received an application to approve the surety.<\/p>\n<p>A garda officer told the court they are still making inquiries in terms of the surety.<\/p>\n<p>She is next set to appear before Monaghan District Court on 7 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A LAW STUDENT accused of transporting a bomb across Ireland has been remanded in custody with consent to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,11603,27,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,35046,194355,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-606566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-court","tag-courts","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-monaghan","tag-monaghan-district-court","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\/606566","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=606566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}