Two men were being questioned by gardaí tonight after a pipebomb and 30 stunguns disguised as mobile phones were found during a raid on a house.
Gardaí and customs officers swopped on the property in New Road, Bellurgan, about 6km north of Dundalk, where they discovered the cache of weapons.
Army bomb disposal experts were called into defuse the explosive at around 1pm.
No controlled explosion was carried out although the device was dismantled at the scene and handed over to gardaí.
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The men were detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act.
PA