Unexploded bomb found at house being built by UUP peer (Ireland)

Irish Examiner ^ | 16/08/2006 | Not stated

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Unexploded bomb found at house being built by UUP peer

Gardaí in Co Louth are investigating the discovery of an unexploded bomb at a construction site near the border yesterday afternoon.

The device, which is understood to have contained around 70 pounds of an explosive mixture, was found in a downstairs room at a house being built near Hackballscross.

Gardaí said it would have destroyed the house if it had exploded.

It was made safe yesterday by bomb disposal experts, who later took it away for further examination.

Reports this morning say the house where the bomb was found was being built by businessman Eddie Haughey, also known as Lord Ballyedmond, on land he owns in the Dungooley area.

Mr Haughey represents the Ulster Unionist Party in the British House of Lords and is a former member of the Seanad.

He is the founder of the Newry-based pharmaceutical giant Norbrook Laboratories.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Committing a terrorist offence in the juristiction of the Irish Republic... I wonder will the usual suspects show up to this thread?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Dissident Republicans Splinter group Covert unit of the Provisional IRA calling itself the Real IRA.

Ireland Ping.

[NonValueAdded]

Danger UXB (great series)

[TheSpaceCoyote]

"Hackballscross" - is that real???? LOL

[Irish_Thatcherite]

We have some strange place names here - there is a village in Roscommon called "Five Mile House"! :P

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I'm not familiar with that.

[Sax]

"Hackballscross" - is that real???? LOL

Sounds painful.

And Dungooley sounds messy.

[js1138]

[goresalooza]

Whoo hooo! Anthony Andrews...in one of his younger, hunkier roles. Great series.

[NonValueAdded]

It was a 1981 Masterpiece Theatre series about how the Brits dealt with the Blitz. (see post 8) Amazon has it on DVD for $63 with some used copies available. Not quite as bloody as Band of Brothers but I'd put it in that class.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Ah, ok. Thanks, I'll look it up! :)

[Red Badger]

Unexploded bomb found

What an asinine headline..........

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I found a four sided square once...

[Tax-chick]

Wasn't Haughey the guy who died recently, that inspired that interesting acronym? GIRM? GURP? Grotesquely something-or-other?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

It's a different Haughey - a member of the Ulster Unionists. The IRA wouldn't bomb Charlie Haughey - he gave them guns, afterall!

That's GUBU - Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented! :P

[IamHD]

"It was made safe yesterday by bomb disposal experts"

A safe bomb. Sounds like Clinton's x surgeon general Jocelyn Elders and her make safe bullets comment.

[Tax-chick]

Thanks! Just two guys with the same last name, huh?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Yup. Two traditions on this island, both sides share a lot of surnames in common! ;)

[SuziQ]

"Danger UXB" was a BBC series about a group of sappers and engineers who disarmed bombs that were dropped by the Germans, but didn't explode, in the early years of WWII. The DVD's with several episodes on each are available at Netflix.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

If it's no longer in any danger of exploding, then it's "made safe". Stupid sounding phrase, I agree with you there.