{"id":606698,"date":"2026-07-27T16:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/606698\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:03:12","slug":"lawyer-of-student-charged-with-possession-of-explosives-says-she-did-not-spend-time-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/606698\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer of student charged with possession of explosives says she did not spend time in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

A LAWYER FOR a woman charged with possession of explosives after a bomb was intercepted in a car in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, has clarified that his client did not spend time in Syria.<\/p>\n

Reports to that effect stem from a mishearing of one of the defendant\u2019s lawyers, who had actually said that she had spent time with the republican group Saoradh.<\/p>\n

Saoradh, which means liberation in Irish, is often pronounced like \u201cseer-ee<\/a>\u201d, including by members of the organisation.<\/p>\n

The defendant\u2019s lawyer, Gavin Booth, clarified to The Journal that he did not say Syria in court last week, contrary to some media reports.<\/p>\n

Isobella Perrie Sullivan (25), of Abbeylands Park, Clane, Co Kildare, was charged with possession of explosives<\/a> 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

An initial report from one outlet present at the hearing reported that the defendant had spent time in Syria; an online version of the article has since been corrected to say that she had spent time in Saoradh.<\/p>\n

The claim has since been repeated online and by international media.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Gavin Booth, the lawyer who was quoted in the stories, had confirmed to The Journal that the word used was Saoradh, not Syria.<\/p>\n

In a second hearing today, Sullivan was 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

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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A LAWYER FOR a woman charged with possession of explosives after a bomb was intercepted in a car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,170475,27,18,13,14,6,19,17,256214,11,12,15,16,9457,256215,55639,5,256216,7,8],"class_list":["post-606698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-court-news","tag-courts","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-isobella-perrie-sullivan","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-misinformation","tag-monaghan-bomb-case","tag-new-ira","tag-news","tag-saoradh","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116992790086343876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606698","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=606698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}