Ireland Crime

Reports the additional 17 charges, the DPP's decision to direct trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court instead of the Special Criminal Court, the striking out of one charge, and remand to 1 May 2026.

First report of this incident. Adds the arrest under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939, and the Cork city house searches on 5 and 6 November that found pipe bomb components and other weapons. No existing case matches.

Second District Court appearance by video link. Gardaí expect further firearms charges and will recommend trial at the Special Criminal Court. The article adds the charge details, the bail refusal and the remand date.

Adds that Paul Sheehan was formally charged with four offences at Mallow Garda Station and appeared before Cork District Court, where he was remanded in custody. It also lists the specific firearms, pipe bomb components and locations in the charges.

Adds that Sheehan was formally charged with four offences, the weapons and explosive items alleged, the locations of the alleged possession, the remand in custody to 12 November, and the Garda request for remand in custody.

Adds that Sheehan was charged with four offences, that the court remanded him in custody, and details of the charges, the Douglas home address and the legal provisions used.

Confirms the man arrested over the Lisanisky seizure has been charged, that he is due before a special sitting of Cork city District Court on 8 November 2025, and that follow-up searches at a Cork city house found pipe bomb components and other items.

Adds that Paul Sheehan was charged with four offences at a special district court sitting, made no bail application and was remanded in custody. It names the Beretta pistol and Glock slide charged at Mallow, and the revolver and pipe bomb components charged at Douglas. It gives his age as 45 and his address as Elm Drive, Shamrock Lawn, Douglas.

Adds that the man has been charged, the special District Court sitting on Saturday 8 November, his detention under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act 1939, the Douglas 'gun-making workshop' find, and the Army EOD attendance.

Adds that the follow-up searches uncovered a suspected gun-making workshop at a home in Douglas, that the search wrapped up on Thursday, and that the arrested man is detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act 1939 for up to 72 hours without charge. Gives the Douglas location, which the existing case lists only as Cork city.

Adds that the car had two bullet holes in a door, that the man was detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, that a gun-making workshop, gun parts and pipe-bomb casings were found at his family home in Douglas, Cork city, that Army EOD and Garda Ballistics Unit were called in, and that he had been investigated about 10 years earlier for importing guns.

Adds that the search of the parents' house found up to 100 parts of decommissioned guns and homemade pipe bombs, that Army EOD was called, and that a line of inquiry is whether the man supplied guns to a feuding faction in north Cork. Does not name the suspect.

First report of the arrest. Adds the bomb disposal team, the workshop at the Douglas home, the pipe bomb components, the cocaine found in the car and the arrest under section 30 of the Offences against the State Act.

Official Garda press release. Adds that the man is detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act 1939, and that follow-up searches at a Cork city residence on 5 November 2025 were attended by the Army EOD unit. It does not mention the pipe bomb components recorded in the existing case.

Official garda.ie update (issued 7 November 2025) adds that follow-up searches at a Cork city residence on 5 and 6 November found shotgun cartridges, ammunition, pipe bomb components, firearm components and firearms, with Army EOD attending. The seized items are under forensic and ballistic examination and the man is detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act 1939.

Adds that the arrested man has been charged and is due before a special sitting of Cork District Court on 8 November 2025 at 2pm. Confirms the Mallow location and that firearms and ammunition were seized along with cocaine.