News from around the 32 counties of Ireland

A man in his 40s has been arrested by detectives investigating recent pipe bomb alerts in the Antrim area. It follows a search of a house in the Randalstown area last Tuesday. Earlier this month, an eight-year-old schoolboy at St Comgall's Primary School in Antrim, was at the centre of an alert when he picked up a pipe bomb in the school playground. A bomb was also left close to a primary school in the nearby village of Crumlin. About 170 pupils were moved to a community centre after the device was found outside an unmanned police station opposite Crumlin Integrated Primary.

(Source: BBC News Northern Ireland)

Armagh

A 51-year-old man has been charged following the recovery of cannabis plants with an estimated value of £25,000 in Portadown, County Armagh. They were discovered by police after the search of a house in Oban Drive last Tuesday. The man has been charged with possession of a Class B drug, cultivation of it and possession with intent to supply of a Class B drug.

(Source: BBC News Northern Ireland)

Carlow

The manager of a Carlow town pub was taken hostage during a shocking tiger raid last weekend. Aileen Julian, the popular manager of The Med Bar on Tullow Street, is understood to have been taken captive by three men after she made her way home from work late last weekend. It was confirmed to The Nationalist that approximately €50,000 was stolen from the pub following the raid. It is under stood that Ms Julian lives in the Chaplestown Gate area of Carlow town, where she was accosted by three men after making her way home.

(Source: The Carlow Nationalist)

Cavan

The drugs menace is beginning to take hold in Cavan and Monaghan with devastating consequences for families and young people - at least 50 full-blown heroin addicts are now availing of Methadone substitute in this area. While the HSE has confirmed to The Anglo-Celt that there are approximately 50 people availing of Methadone treatment in the Cavan/Monaghan region, the paper understands there are dozens more who either do not want to reveal their habit or do not have access to Methadone.

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