Explosion in Dublin City centre hostel

someone using gas ?

Same hostel had an arson attack in 2022 by one of it's service users.

Pipe bomb detonated under bed of man killed in Dublin hostel explosion, gardaí believe

Very strange. Why is a homeless Lithuanian building pipe bombs?

*Actually, I'm assuming it was his, perhaps he was assigned that bed and a previous user had left it behind.

No wonder people sleep on the streets instead of hostels.

Not necessarily, if people have their own rooms they can be targeted individually. If they can lock the door then there is less chance of someone reporting injuries or OD’s immediately.

Would you prefer your own room or share with strangers whom, no offense to homeless, may have addiction or mental health problems?

Most are hostels are single rooms , there are still shared rooms though.

True, but homemade explosive devices don't have the best safety record.

Sky News quotes Garda saying "no foul play suspected" which sounds a bit odd.

Well still the headline item on the RTE news website - a major story to the Montrose people to broadcast to duffers audience - guess what 90% of the calls will be about on todaze show!

Guess so. Heading off to Cheltenham so will check news later..

Out of interest when was the last time someone was killed by an illegal explosive device in the Republic, not including petrol bombs or arson? Would likely be the Mountbatten assassination in 79.

That would have been Garda Harkin, killed outside Portarlington in 1976 by a booby trap bomb.

Do these hostels vet the people they admit into them?

Beggars can’t be ….. oh wait 🙈