{"id":1135960,"date":"2026-08-07T14:11:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1135960\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T14:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:11:39","slug":"law-student-charged-over-intercepted-bomb-appears-in-court-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1135960\/","title":{"rendered":"Law student charged over intercepted bomb appears in court \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A law student charged in relation to a bomb intercepted in a car near the Irish border has appeared in court.<\/p>\n

Isobella Perrie Sullivan, 25, of Abbeylands Park, Clane, Co Kildare, had previously been granted bail after being charged with possession of explosives.<\/p>\n

Ms Perrie Sullivan attended a brief hearing at Monaghan<\/a> District Court on Friday.<\/p>\n

She stood when her case was called. The matter was adjourned until September 28 after a garda officer said the DPP is waiting for updates.<\/p>\n

\"Former<\/a>\"Last<\/a><\/p>\n

At a previous hearing, 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 that she had been \u201cmanipulated\u201d.<\/p>\n

The car was stopped on the N2 at Aclint, Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, in July.<\/p>\n

During a search of the vehicle, a bag was discovered in the rear seat that contained an amount of Semtex military grade explosive and a detonator.<\/p>\n

In court previously, Ms Perrie Sullivan was granted bail with conditions, including that she not have any contact with anyone in Saoradh or the New IRA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"IsobellaIsobella Perrie Sullivan <\/p>\n

Also charged in relation to the bomb interception is Simon O\u2019Donovan, an employee at a Dublin museum.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old is charged with possession of an explosive substance at St Laurence\u2019s Road in Chapelizod in the city on Wednesday July 22.<\/p>\n

He has been remanded in custody until October 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A law student charged in relation to a bomb intercepted in a car near the Irish border has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1135961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[308882,15458,308883,308884,1144,13136,308885,16,15],"class_list":["post-1135960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-bomb-interception-near-the-irish-border","tag-irish","tag-isobella-perrie-sullivan","tag-monaghan-district-court","tag-northern-ireland","tag-republic-of-ireland","tag-simon-odonovan","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117054636799943721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1135961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}