Security alerts involving improvised explosive devices have become almost a weekly occurence in Derry during the past few months as dissident republicans step up their armed actions in the city.
For Tsipras, the youngest leader to hold high office in modern times, what lies ahead is a litany of choices with potentially explosive effect.
Unlikely to be as pleasant on the eye, but no less explosive, that particular showdown is scheduled for Saturday, with the fixture generator having unwittingly maximised excitement among Iceland's football followers by pitting the Premier League's two potential title winners against each other on the final day of the season.
Palace's players had arrived at the Amex for the second leg of the semi-final to find the tension in the tie had clearly already had an explosive effect.
We should now consider why African countries must invest in science and technology, how science creates wealth, and what Africa must do to achieve this "new liberation" – using its untapped natural wealth, human resources, and effective policy execution to create explosive wealth that by-passes western-led globalisation and creates national and continental technology hubs.
Fitt and Devlin, coming from similar backgrounds and with similarly explosive temperaments, once had to be dragged out of a fist fight behind the Speaker's chair at Stormont.
He also suggested that a key element of the UK contribution would be passing on the experience gained during previous operations in Iraq – the last British troops to withdraw from the country left as recently as May 2011 – and also lessons learned during the UK military's 13-year war with the Taliban in Afghanistan where troops dealt routinely with roadside bombs and other explosive devices.
He had ordered her to drive the bus with an explosive device on board to Strand Road police station – the target of repeat bomb attacks by republican dissidents.
No matter how often I (or my explosive editor, Kelvin MacKenzie) pledged not to deal with him any longer, it was impossible to do so because he came up with the goods.
One of the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) caused the death of Sgt First Class Randy Johnson, 34, of 2nd Stryker cavalry regiment, when it blew a hole in the bottom of the armoured vehicle he was travelling in on 27 September 2007.
A few days ago, França said, someone had lobbed a home-made explosive device into the protest camp.
