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Men who planned Galway mosque bombing brought ‘shame and embarrassment’ says Judge
Ireland is a diverse country and three men who formed part of a terrorist group that plotted to attack a Galway mosque using pipe bombs have brought “shame and embarrassment on all of us,” a judge has said.
Group planned to throw pipe bombs through windows of Galway mosque, court hears
A group styling itself the “Irish Defence Army” planned to smash the windows of a mosque using sledgehammers and throw pipe bombs inside to make a “public statement”, the Special Criminal Court heard on Monday.
Women arrested after bombs and cocaine found in Menlough raid
As part of ongoing investigations targeting organised criminal activity in County Galway, Gardaí arrested three women and seized six improvised explosive devices, €20,000 worth of cocaine and €9,000 worth of cannabis during a search of a residential property at Menlough, Ballinasloe, Co Galway on Sunday.
The university man, the Headford ambush, and the 'Day of Rage'
For most of December 1920, Thomas Hynes, quartermaster of the Galway IRA, was in Queen’s College Galway - today's NUIG - hiding from Crown forces, sleeping on top of bookshelves, and assisting in the making of grenades.
