A paraplegic man was jailed for three years by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today for INLA membership linked to a plot to a kidnap a Cork businessman.

Four men arrested during a garda investigation into an alleged INLA plot to kidnap a Cork businessman were jailed for INLA membership by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

A man from the North denied at the Special Criminal Court today that he was an INLA member when he was arrested by gardaí investigating a plot to kidnap a Cork businessman.