The Special Criminal Court has ruled that members of the public should be excluded from the court when six members of the Garda National Surveillance Unit give evidence in the trial of eight Dublin men accused of IRA membership.

Although only scoring once in the last 23 minutes, Louth held out to bridge a 16-year gap when advancing to the Leinster U21FC final at the expense of a fancied Offaly side at Navan’s Páirc Tailteann last night.

A winning debut for Davy Fitzgerald in his first competitive game at the helm of his native county as a far fitter, faster and fired-up Clare destroyed WIT in Sixmilebridge yesterday in this Waterford Crystal SH Tournament preliminary game.

A 68-year-old Dublin man has been sentenced to three years in prison for IRA membership.

A Dublin man has today been convicted at the Special Criminal Court of IRA membership in 2009.

The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgment in the case of a 68-year-old Dublin man accused of IRA membership.

The Special Criminal Court has found today that the trial of a Dublin man accused of membership of the IRA can continue despite a challenge to the belief evidence proffered by a Garda Chief Superintendant.

The trial of a Dublin man accused of membership of an illegal organisation has been adjourned after a Garda Chief Superintendant failed to affirm whether he believed the man was a member of the IRA within the State.

A Co Kildare man was cleared of IRA membership by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgment in the trial of a Co Kildare man accused of membership of an unlawful organisation.

A Co Kildare man arrested during a garda investigation into the manufacture and movement of explosive devices by dissident republicans pleaded not guilty to membershi[p of an illegal organisation at the Special Criminal Court today.

WATERFORD manager Davy Fitzgerald was elated at the final whistle on Saturday night and was loud in praise of his charges.

JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern said there had to be “tighter controls” over access to information about jury members to ensure it didn’t fall into the hands of criminals.

IT WAS a long road that led Peter Kirwan back to his starting point. As a youngster in Kill, near Kilmeaden in Waterford, his obsession with Australian Rules brought him to Cranbourne, a feeder club for AFL side Melbourne.

LETHAL assaults are occurring in Limerick because there is no secure psychiatric unit in the city for violent, mentally ill people, according to the president of the Limerick Law Society.

NURSES’ representatives at a Limerick psychiatric hospital claim patients are living in Dickensian accommodation while health board staff occupy plush offices.

STAFF at one of the country’s oldest psychiatric hospitals were last night outraged following claims that the transfer of patients to a new unit was being held up by a row over compensation for workers.

A SENIOR medic at one of the country’s oldest psychiatric units says he does not want to see any more elderly patients die in such draconian conditions.