The Special Criminal Court is to deliver its judgment on Friday in the case of a Limerick man accused of membership of the IRA.

A man accused of membership of the Real IRA in Limerick drove into Co Tipperary to collect drainage rods, he told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

A Limerick man who was earlier acquitted of firearms charges is a member of the Real IRA, a chief superintendent claimed in the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.