Ex Maynooth Uni worker jailed for bomb charges over UK royal visit

A man arrested on bomb charges in the run-up to the State visit of Prince Charles last year was yesterday jailed for five-and-a-half years.

The Special Criminal Court previously heard evidence gardai found device components in the defendant's locker at Maynooth University in Co Kildare.

Donal O Coisdealbha, 25, of Abbeyfield, Killester, North Dublin, pleaded guilty last month to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army on May 13, 2015.

His DNA profile was discovered on a pair of gloves in the house and on an improvised explosive device in a car at Mitchelstown, Navan, Co Meath.