DUBLIN, Ireland, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A pipe bomb was found in a Dublin park Saturday close to where Princess Anne of Britain was to attend a rugby match later in the day.
Investigators said they had found no evidence the device in Fairview Park was connected to the princess's visit, The Irish Times reported. An Army bomb squad disarmed it.
Two pipe bombs were found in the same park in November.
The princess's visit to Dublin for a rugby match between Ireland and Scotland is controversial among Irish nationalists. The match was to be played in Croke Park where 14 people were mowed down on Bloody Sunday in 1920 in reprisal for the assassination of British agents earlier the same day. The VIP area is in the Hogan Stand, named after Michael Hogan, one of the victims.
Republican Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Continuity Irish Republican Army, planned to protest the princess's presence with a demonstration during the match.
