DNA obtained from a money bag seized by gardaí is “a thousand million times” more likely to have come from a Cork man accused of IRA membership than an unknown source, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A Garda Chief Superintendent told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that he believed he was "on the trail" of money stolen in the Northern Bank robbery in Belfast in 2004 when he launched an investigation into a Cork man accused of IRA membership.