A house was targeted in a pipe bomb attack in north Dublin early this morning in the second such incident this week.
The device was thrown into the driveway of the house on Roseglen Avenue, Kilbarrack, shortly after midnight, according to gardaí.
Defence forces spokesman
"Nobody was injured following the explosion, although severe damage was caused to a Renault Clio car parked in the driveway and the front window of the house was blown in," a Garda spokesman said.
"There were a number of people in the house who suffered shock but no other injuries."
Army bomb disposal experts were called, and the scene will be examined by forensic experts today.
On Wednesday evening a similar device partially detonated at the home of John Ward, a second-hand car dealer in Glin Road, Coolock.
Nobody was injured when the pipe bomb, which consisted of nails and shotgun pellets with a quantity of explosives, went off. The Coolock device was concealed in a flask and left on top of the boot of a car in the driveway of the house.
When the car was moved just before 5pm on Wednesday, the flask containing the bomb fell and partially exploded. Detectives are still trying to establish a motive for the attack after forensic officers examined the scene.
A defence forces spokesman said: "They [the army squad] have told me that it was a sophisticated device, certainly intended to cause lethal damage and possibly death," he said.
"Had anybody been in the vicinity of this device when it exploded, it would have caused serious injury if not worse."
This afternoon the Garda Commissioner, Noel Conroy, said that the two pipe incidents were unrelated.
