ACC Bank has told the High Court that it will challenge a ruling yesterday in the Northern Ireland High Court declaring a Co Wicklow businessman a bankrupt.

Gardaí investigating dissident republican activity in Co Donegal last February found cable ties in a car and arrested three men from the North, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin was told today.

The High Court is to be asked to block the part of the new Charities Act which outlaws the sale of Mass cards other than through an arrangement with the Catholic Church.