RACE TO CATCH DRONE BOMBER

>> Gardai fear second >> 'Lives at risk' as bid & revenge attack : major probe into IED

- BY MICHAEL O'TOOLE and PAUL HEALY

GARDAI are in a race against time to catch the criminal who built Ireland's first-ever drone bomb - before he makes more.

"We don't know who made it yet," a source said as detectives mount a major investigation into the IED incident in Finglas, north Dublin, late on Sunday night.

"But we are obviously keen to find him. The fear is that once he has made one, he will try to make another.

"This attempt was unsuccessful, we are worried that if there is another one, it won't fail."

The drone crashed at the home of an innocent family in Glenties Park at around 9pm on Sunday - but it was being flown towards a target elsewhere in Finglas.

Sources say the IED was being used as part of a simmering dispute between two rival crime gangs in Finglas - and now investigators fear it will lead to even more serious violence.

"Lives are at risk now," one investigator said.

REVENGE

We have learned that gardai in Finglas believe the crime gang targeted by the flying IED which experts say was more sophisticated than a pipe bomb and had an electronic charging component - are now intent on revenge.