A TROUBLED teenager, who was sent to a special care unit in Sweden, may spend three more years there at a cost of €100,000 a year, a court heard yesterday.

The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgment in the trial of seven men suspected of membership of the dissident republican organisation, the Continuity IRA.

One of seven men arrested at an alleged Continuity IRA meeting in Limerick told gardaí that the men were all members of Republican Sinn Fein and not members of an illegal organisation, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

A MAN suffered head injuries yesterday after a car drove over him twice during a vicious assault in west Belfast. Sam Hodgkinson, 53, was walking his dog in the loyalist Shankill Road area when two men got out of a white saloon with a taxi sign on the roof and attacked him.

Police shot and critically wounded a man as a suspected dissident republican bomb attack was foiled in Belfast city centre.