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.

[qlangley]

Obviously the IRA wouldn't have bombed Charlie, but it doesn't mean their stuff wouldn't have been at his house.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Thanks. :)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

You're wrong - it's all on his yacht! :P

[qlangley]

Must be a bloody big yacht! All in one place? We should have just sunk it.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

There's probably more on that island, Inisvickillane, of his...

[qlangley]

Pinging the RAF. Scramble, scramble.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Damn. I wish the Irish Defence Forces would do that...

[qlangley]

What DO they do? Isn't like being on welfare?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

A lot of peace keeping missions for the UN - it's below their station.

[IamHD]

Yes, of course that's what they meant. And I agree that the may that it was stated was stupid sounding. That's why I compared it to the X surgeon general's bullet comment. :)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Safe bullets - LOL!

Safe cars, safe cliffs - there is some of that personal responsibility missing from there! ;)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Hibernofascist terrorism ping.

[slane]

If I were a UUP politician, especially one who's also a peer, I wouldn't be living anywhere near Hackballscross! Looks as though the lads from the oul bomb-making brigade are a bit bored and trying to start some aggro...

[ApplegateRanch]

Then again, it may "just" be ecowhackos "protesting" his pharmaceutical comapny for using aninal testing. Does he have any, even tenuous, links to Huntingdon Life Sciences?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

LOL!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I think it's more likely to be the RIRA...

[Murtyo]

committing a terrorist act where? "the Irish Republic"? Never heard Ireland called that before, OK I have but not by any living person from the Ireland (AKA Republic of Ireland)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

It's called that.. sometimes. Anyway, I was emphasising it happened south of the border, not in NI - just so the usual Sinn Fein shills know that!

[Murtyo]

I hear you, just giving you agro, it's better that "Southern Ireland" which always begs the question - Where exactly is Donegal?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I hear you, just giving you agro, it's better that "Southern Ireland" which always begs the question - Where exactly is Donegal?

Well.. it's like the United States of America - is Hawaii part of America? ;)

Actually, I always think of Donegal as an Irish Alaska - sort of isolated away from the rest of us.

So southern Ireland => The Lower 25? :P