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A MAN AGED in his 40s, who was arrested after a bomb was found in a car travelling through Carrickmacross in Co Monaghan earlier this week, has been charged.

The bomb was discovered following a search of the car and the Army Bomb Disposal team was called in to make the device safe before it was removed for a forensic examination.

He will appear before the Special Criminal Court this evening at the Criminal Courts of Justice at 8.15pm.

This comes after a 25-year-old woman was charged in relation to the same incident yesterday evening.

Isobella Perrie Sullivan, a law student who has an address at Abbeylands Park in Clane, Co Kildare, was charged with the possession of explosives at a special sitting of Trim District Court.

She was remanded in custody with consent to bail which will be heard at Monaghan District Court on Monday, 27 July.

Gardaí continue to investigate all the circumstances surrounding a vehicle that was stopped travelling on the N2 south of Carrickmacross on Wednesday 22 July 2026.

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