Ireland: IIDs Target Housing Estate

TRIPwire, 3 March 2023
On 25 February 2023, Gardai officers responded to a housing estate in Loughrea, Galway, after an improvised incendiary device (IID), described as a petrol bomb, was thrown through a window of one of the homes, causing fire damage to the house and a vehicle parked in the driveway. On 27 February, an IID was thrown at a second home in the same housing estate, causing fire damage. No further device details have been released, and no injuries were reported in either incident. The investigations are ongoing.