A mother who is serving a ten-year sentence has forfeited €60,000 to the State as the proceeds of drug dealing.

A GARDA investigation has been launched following the sudden death of a dissident republican inside Portlaoise Prison.

A mother who was caught with cannabis resin valued almost €400,000 has been jailed for 10 years after Judge Frank O’Donnell said he could not find any circumstance that would justify imposing a lesser sentence.

Nine men who were arrested after gardaí swooped on a suspected Continuity IRA training camp in the Comeragh mountains were jailed by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Gardaí discovered four guns, a makeshift firing range and targets when they raided a suspected Continuity IRA training camp at a clearing in the Comeragh mountains, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Nine men arrested after gardaí swooped on a suspected Continuity IRA training camp in Co Waterford in 2003 pleaded guilty to firearms offences at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Eight men arrested when gardaí swooped on a suspected Continuity IRA training camp in Co Waterford last August were further charged with new offences when they appeared at the Special Criminal Court today.

The Special Criminal Court today fixed a date in January 2005 for the trial of eight men arrested when gardaí swooped on a suspected Continuity IRA training camp in Co Waterford last August.

A group of men charged in connection with a suspected Continuity IRA training camp were deer stalking in preparation for the new hunting season, a court was told today.

Eight men were charged tonight in connection with a Garda surveillance operation of a wooded area of Co Waterford.