A senior Special Branch officer told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that the Real IRA has carried out 80 terrorist type attacks since October, 1999, the most recent being a bomb attack on Maghaberry jail in the north last month.

A Dublin man arrested after a Special Branch operation against the Real IRA was convicted of membership of an illegal organisation by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

A Dublin man was arrested after Special Branch detectives involved in an operation against the Real IRA swooped on a room in a Co Meath hotel last year, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

The Special Criminal Court has set May 2 for the trial of one of four men arrested in a garda swoop on dissident republicans in a Co Meath hotel last summer.

Four men arrested after Special Branch detectives swooped on dissident republicans at a Co Meath hotel were further remanded in custody for a fortnight at a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Four suspected members of the Real IRA arrested in a weekend raid on a hotel in Co Meath today appeared before a court in Dublin.