Yesterday’s article by Tom Brady in the Irish Independent suggests that Wednesday’s grenade attack on Dublin 8’s Park Terrace was caused by a family feud.

According to Brady: ‘Detectives are working on the theory that the blast is an escalation of a relatively minor row between a criminal and his mother-in-law.’

Link to article here.

100 people were evacuated from their houses in Dublin 8’s Park Terrace yesterday, after a hand grenade exploded after being thrown at a house.

A grenade pin was subsequently found by the Army Bomb Disposal Team, who also carried out a controlled explosion on a suspect package. The package was found, according to early reports, in a vehicle in the underground carpark of the Carman’s Court apartment complex.

RTE crime correspondent Paul Reynolds reported suspicions that the incident relates to a fight in a Dublin 8 pub over the weekend between a former INLA member and local gang members.

Initially, the incident was reported as being caused by a pipebomb, as journalists felt it was connected to an incident which occurred on Monday in the Dublin suburb of Mulhuddart, when a pipebomb was thrown from a moving vehicle.

News today of an ‘interconnector’ line for the DART, connecting Heuston Station to Christ Church, St. Stephen’s Green, Pearse Street and Docklands. The article on the RTE site is here.