He is also charged with robbing the man of several items, including two mobile phones and a passport, and of demanding £50,000 (€59,285) with menaces from the man.

A "naive" man who made a “catastrophic error of judgment” by opening the gates of his father’s quarry and allowing the IRA to take explosives away has avoided an immediate jail sentence.

A chief superintendent has told the non-jury Special Criminal Court he believes two men are members of the IRA.

Seamus McGrane was recorded in a pub in Dublin in April, 2015, a month before the prince’s visit to Ireland, say Diarmaid Mac Dermott and Daniel Hickey

A Real IRA leader who plotted an explosion during the State visit of Britain’s Prince Charles two years ago has been found guilty by the Special Criminal Court of directing the activities of a terrorist organisation.

“In the base of the bag there was four blocks of ...TNT and three electronic detonators in good condition strapped to the TNT.”

A man charged with IRA membership has been granted bail by the Special Criminal Court.

Three men appeared before a sitting of the non-jury Special Criminal Court at the weekend, charged with membership of the IRA among other offences.

A printer who had a €2m property judgment against him has avoided jail for production of 49 boxes of counterfeit €50 notes.

Eight Dublin men have appeared before an Easter Sunday sitting of the Special Criminal Court charged with membership of the IRA.

The son of a man who was convicted but later cleared of the 1998 Omagh bombing has today been granted bail pending an appeal against his conviction for explosives offences.

A Co Monaghan man already serving a prison sentence for possession of firearms was today charged with a new offence of having explosives in the North in 2010.

A Garda expert in the distillation of poitin has given evidence in the trial of two Louth men accused of possessing explosive substances.