Gardaí were acting on intelligence that firearms were being moved on behalf of the INLA at the time a car was stopped and searched in the Dundalk area, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A Chief Superintendent has told the Special Criminal Court he believes a 33-year-old Louth man was a member of the INLA at the time of his arrest.

A young garda discovered his home had been ransacked, “covered in a blue powdery substance” and that the toilet was “stuffed” with torn garda notebooks, the Special Criminal Court has heard today.

A bulletproof army vest was among the items found by gardaí during a search on the home of a Louth man accused of INLA membership, the Special Criminal Court has heard today.

Garda uniforms and two bulletproof vests were found in the boot of a car which failed to stop at a garda road block, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A Special Branch detective told a court today that two men were detained by armed detectives after their car crashed into an official garda car as they tried to escape from a pursuing patrol car.

A Dundalk man was arrested after the car in which he was a passenger tried to drive through a garda roadblock, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The Special Criminal Court in Dublin today fixed a date in October for the trial of a Dundalk man accused of INLA membership.

The trial of a Dundalk man accused of INLA membership dramatically collapsed at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today after it emerged that a Special Branch detective driver for the presiding judge was a witness in the case.

A Dundalk man accused of INLA membership was seen by gardaí on numerous occasions in the company of men convicted of firearms and other offences, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

Detectives found garda uniforms, bulletproof vests and an extendable baton in a car they stopped in Dundalk just before Christmas 2007, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin heard today.

A Co Louth man has denied membership of the INLA at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Two men are due before the Special Criminal Court this morning charged in connection with membership of the INLA.

The Special Criminal Court has tonight remanded in custody two Co Louth men who were charged with being members of the INLA.

Gardaí have named the motorcyclist who died in a road accident in Co Monaghan last night as 44-year-old Anthony Lee, from Caramoyle Estate, Keady, Co Armagh.