Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean Fitzpatrick has been granted legal aid for his upcoming trial on charges of failing to disclose loans from another bank.

The trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick on charges of failing to tell the bank's auditors about loans he received has been put back to February next year.

A Co Louth man on trial for IRA membership told gardaí in interview that it would be “stupid” of him to get involved in the IRA and that such involvement was “a one-way ticket to death or jail”.

A replica firearm was found in a car in which three men from the North charged with membership of the IRA where travelling when arrested, the Special Criminal Court has heard.