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Updated at 7.48am
A MAN AND a woman — both serving members of the Defence Forces — are being held for questioning by gardaí after they were arrested in Burnfoot, Co Donegal on Monday.
They were detained after the army bomb squad responded to a call out to examine a suspicious device at a residence in the village.
It was located in a building next to a filling station, and was later determined to be a viable explosive device.
The man was detained on Monday afternoon, and the woman later that evening. Both are aged in their 20s.
A garda spokesperson confirmed they had been taken for questioning to Buncrana Garda Station, where they are being held under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act.
Burnfoot is a small village, located around 4km from the border.
First posted at 7.30am
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They were found with 10 packs of mentos and 10 bottles of diet coke.
I’m disgusted that members of our army would help those criminals.
The criminals are in the army. I know people like to have a romantic notion of the army being moral pillars but the army is actually an ideal place to, for example, deal drugs. Every army in the world has this problem.
There’s a big problem in US Army with gangs getting trained up on weapons.
They are the criminals
Not what you expect from people whose job it is to defend this state. They have brought the defence forces into disrepute and deserve to have the book thrown at them.
And if I could I’d build a wall around old Donegal
The north and south to keep them out, my god I’d build
it tall
Casinoes, chicken ranches, I’d legalize them all
We’d have our own Las Vegas in the hills of Donegal!!!!
Arrested for doing their homework !!!!!
Joking aside sounds like a serious situation couple sleepers???
There are two gangs in the army. They don’t like each other. No sleepers, just drugs. Not that romantic.
i think they should put a roof over Donegal and make it into a mad house.
Government needs to come down hard on these so called freedom fighters
Imagine the uproar if this was British soldiers helping loyalist terror groups.
The journal are leaving out info. It is about two gangs in the army. It is not the army helping dissidents. Not every bomb has to be a terrorists.
Well a couple of years back there was a soldier from the Irish army involved in an real IRA attempted murder of a PSNI officer in Fermanagh. Some surely have republican tendencies.
im sure lots of them are republicans but that doesn’t mean there in the IRA
Some are though, it doesnt really cause that much shock.
well there not true republicans
This story has been blown out of proportion ….
Called out to them selves. Maybe a call in!
Is that a collection or a takeaway lads???
This story is da bomb.
One day a sink hole will swallow up donegal, and the sooner the better, every county in the country has over 90% compliance with property tax donegal 83% they a just a bunch of scrounges
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