Dublin, April 26: Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has discovered a large quantity of suspected bomb making equipment while investigating dissident republican activities.
The bomb-making devices have been found in south Armagh a day after police officers discovered a weapons cache in a vehicle they stopped in the same county.
Police said they have arrested three men with link to the guns and ammunition haul found in Keady, near the Irish border, on Friday.
However, they failed to make any further arrests during the searches on Saturday, which uncovered the suspect bomb making material.
PSNI has continued to warn of potential dissident attacks over the Easter period.
Security forces in Northern Ireland are on full alert amid fears that the extremists could unleash a fresh offensive.
Just three weeks after the murder of Constable Ronan Kerr in Omagh, police warned that terrorist groups could be intent on trying to murder more officers in the coming days and weeks.
“Dissident terrorist groups are continuing to identify officers and target them with the single objective of killing them.
And in so doing, their reckless actions will also put the lives of our wider communities at risk”, said a police spokesman.
The new warning came as thousands of mainstream republicans supporting Sinn Fein and the peace process prepared to hold dozens of commemoration parades throughout Ireland to mark the 1916 Rising.
——–Agencies