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Catholic dissidents are thought to have planted the device found on a bus heading to Dublin, amid warnings from a security expert that it could mark the start of a series of devices designed to disrupt the Queen’s visit.
A “viable" improvised explosive device, thought to be a pipe bomb, was found on a crowded coach heading from the west of Ireland just 40 miles from the city.
The explosive device was discovered in a holdall in the luggage compartment when it was checked in Maynooth, Co Kildare late last night.
Patrick Mercer, MP for Newark and former Army officer who served in Northern Ireland and Bosnia, said: “If it was a pipe bomb it is almost certainly a device from the Real IRA. Catholic groups tend to make bombs using bits of scaffolding while Protestant groups make bombs that look like grenades.
“This one was probably designed to disrupt the Queen’s visit not necessarily to go off. A pipe bomb goes off on impact unless it has a sophisticated timer which is unusual.
“The plan would likely be that they hoped it would get inside the security cordon of the city and then they would make a call to police saying there was a bomb on the bus.
“This device was probably designed to embarrass. The point is they have got to do something. The Queen is on their turf. She’s got British police with her.
“There will be more of this in the north - probably in Belfast or Lurgan. They will hope to get a proper bomb in but there also will be a number of hoaxes.”
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