Gardai said that three men and a woman were arrested in Dundalk and Dublin over the weekend as part of the ongoing operation against dissident Republican paramilitaries. Gardai also recovered a number of bomb-making components including four timer power units when they searched an apartment in Blackhall Place, Dublin and arrested the woman on Saturday afternoon.
On Saturday, just before 11 a.m. three men were arrested by Dundalk detectives and members of the Emergency Response Unit - bomb-making components were found in their car.
The four are all suspected of being supporters of the so-called "Real IRA".