A car bomb exploded outside a courthouse in Newry, Northern Ireland, at 10:37 p.m. local time Feb. 22. No injuries or deaths were reported in the attack because it came so late at night and because authorities were warned of the bombing by telephone beforehand. The main gates to the courthouse and the front of the building were damaged when the attacker backed the car into the gates and abandoned the vehicle before it exploded some 30 minutes later. Police estimate the bomb consisted of up to 250 pounds of explosives. Despite multiple attempts, republican dissidents in the country have failed to properly detonate a significant vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) since 2001, when a car-bomb attack in west London injured seven people.