Irish authorities continued to work closely with Britain's counterterrorist efforts. For example, in April they uncovered a cache of PIRA guns and ammunition supplied by Libya and hidden in a farm north of Dublin. In July an Irish court sentenced Adrian Hopkins to eight years (of which five were suspended) after he pleaded guilty to running 150 tons of Libyan weapons and explosives for the PIRA as captain of the Eksund. Hopkins had fled to Ireland in 1990 from France where his vessel was seized in 1987. Caches of Libyan-supplied Semtex explosives, presumably hidden by PIRA in Ireland, have not been found, however. Irish police did intercept a massive truck bomb in County Donegal on 8 July as it headed for the Ulster border. PIRA assembled its largest known vehicle bomb ever--nearly four tons of fertilizer and Semtex--in Ireland but abandoned it when it bogged down in a wet field in September.

Source: United States Department of State, April 1992.